From the Earth to the Moon

Jules Verne

⏱ 8 minAdventure classic

Idle after the war, the Baltimore Gun Club casts a nine-hundred-foot cannon to fire three men at the Moon — until a reckless Frenchman insists on riding the shell himself. Verne's audacious space-race satire.

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