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Around the moon/Autour de la lune: Bilingual edition/édition bilingue

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Around the moon/Autour de la lune: Bilingual edition/édition bilingue
Around the moon/Autour de la lune: Bilingual edition/édition bilingue

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Around the moon/Autour de la lune: Bilingual edition/édition bilingue

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Having been fired out of the giant Columbiad space gun, the Baltimore Gun Club's bullet-shaped projectile, along with its three passengers, Barbicane, Nicholl and Michel Ardan, begins the five-day trip to the moon. A few minutes into the journey, a small, bright asteroid passes within a few hundred yards of them, but luckily does not collide with the projectile. The asteroid had been captured by the Earth's gravity and had become a second moon. The three travelers undergo a series of adventures and misadventures during the rest of the journey, including disposing of the body of a dog out a window, suffering intoxication by gases, and making calculations leading them, briefly, to believe that they are to fall back to Earth. During the latter part of the voyage, it becomes apparent that the gravitational force of their earlier encounter with the asteroid has caused the projectile to deviate from its course. Ce roman décrit les aventures des trois hommes (Nicholl, Barbicane et Michel Ardan) qui sont montés dans un obus tiré par un immense canon pour les envoyer vers la Lune. En dépit de ses invraisemblances et de ses erreurs (lancement par un canon, pesanteur présente sauf au "point neutre", etc), le roman s'est avéré étonnamment prémonitoire par rapport à la mission Apollo 8: l'initiative du voyage dans la Lune a bien été prise par les Américains, le départ de la mission américaine a eu lieu à Cap Canaveral, à quelques centaines de kilomètres seulement de l'endroit choisi par Verne en Floride, non pour les raisons qu'offre l'auteur, mais parce que la vitesse supérieure de rotation de la terre à cet endroit y est plus favorable. Il y a bien eu trois astronautes à bord de la capsule, et la mission a duré un peu moins d'une semaine, comme celle de Michel Ardan et ses amis. Enfin au retour, l'engin se retrouve dans l'océan après avoir effectué une orbite lunaire.

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