20 Freakishly Specific Predictions From History That Came True
18. Jules Verne's Forecast Of The First Moon Landing Was Eerily Specific... 104 Years Before It Happened (1865)
Jules Verne - best known for his adventure novels Journey to the Center of the Earth, Around the World in Eighty Days and Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - predicted the Apollo moon landing, 104 years before it actually happened. In 1865, he wrote a short story named "From the Earth to the Moon" - and in it he predicted the ship would be named "Apollo", the launch would take place from Florida and that three astronauts would fly into space. Perhaps most amazing, however, is that he knew the astronauts would feel a sense of weightlessness in space and on the moon - even though the differing properties of gravity in space had yet to be determined at that time.
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Jules Verne - best known for his adventure novels Journey to the Center of the Earth, Around the World in Eighty Days and Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - predicted the Apollo moon landing, 104 years before it actually happened. In 1865, he wrote a short story named "From the Earth to the Moon" - and in it he predicted the ship would be named "Apollo", the launch would take place from Florida and that three astronauts would fly into space. Perhaps most amazing, however, is that he knew the astronauts would feel a sense of weightlessness in space and on the moon - even though the differing properties of gravity in space had yet to be determined at that time.