Reply From the Observatory of Cambridge

From the Earth to the Moon

by Jules VERNE (1828 - 1905)

From the Earth to the Moon (French: De la Terre à la Lune) is a humorous science fantasy story written in 1865 by Jules Verne and is one of the earliest entries in that genre. It tells the story of three well-to-do members of a post-American Civil War gun club who build an enormous sky-facing columbiad and ride a spaceship fired from it to the moon. (Summary from Wikipedia)

Listen next episodes of From the Earth to the Moon:
Ch. 16 The Columbiad and Ch. 17 A Telegraphic Dispatch , Ch. 18 The Passenger of the Atlanta , Ch. 19 A Monster Meeting , Ch. 20 Attack and Riposte , Ch. 21 How A Frenchman Manages An Affair , Ch. 22 The New Citizen of the United States , Ch. 23 The Projectile-Vehicle , Ch. 24 The Telescope of the Rocky Mountains , Ch. 25 Final Details , Ch. 26 Fire! , Ch. 27 Foul Weather , Ch. 28 A New Star , Florida and Texas , History of the Cannon , One Enemy V. Twenty-Five Millions of Friends , Pickaxe and Trowel , Stones Hill , The Fete of the Casting , The Hymn of the Cannon-Ball , The Permissive Limits of Ignorance and Belief in the United States , The Question of the Powders , The Romance of the Moon , Urbi et Orbi