203. Which of the writers foresaw the flight to the Moon?

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Space flight in detail, very close to reality, was first described in the writings of Jules Verne "From the Earth to the Moon" (1865) and "Around the Moon" (1870). These famous duology is an outstanding example of "see through time." It was created 100 years before manned flight around the moon was implemented in practice. But what strikes the most, so it is a surprising similarity between the fictional flight (at Verne — flight projectile "Columbiad") and real (meaning moon Odyssey spacecraft "Apollo-8", which in 1968 made the first manned flight around the moon ). Both spacecraft — and the literary and real — had crew of three people. Both started in December with the Florida peninsula, the two took to the lunar orbit ("Apollo", however, has made the Moon eight full turns, while its fantastic "precursor" — just one).