De La Terre À La Lune: Trajet Direct En 97 Heures 20 Minutes

The Civil War is over, and a group of American artillery officers find themselves with nothing to shoot and nothing to build. So they build the biggest gun ever imagined, not to kill, but to reach the moon. Impey Barbicane, president of the Gun-Club, proposes firing a projectile carrying three men into lunar orbit, and the project consumes a nation. What follows is a meticulous, absurd, utterly compelling account of men who apply wartime ingenuity to peacetime ambition. Verne anticipates rocket physics, capsule design, and splashdown with eerie precision, yet his true subject is something wilder: the arrogance and optimism that drive humans to fling themselves into the void. This is science fiction's founding text, not because it predicted the future, but because it believed one was possible.