8 Eerily Accurate Predictions That Came True

8. Jules Verne: The Moon Landings, 1865

Writers have been predicting, or at least fantasizing, about sending man to the moon ever since we learned what it was. This is perfectly normal human curiosity, but Jules Verne took it one step further.

In his novel From the Earth to the Moon, published in 1865, Verne described a craft, crewed by three people, being fired at the moon from a cannon. The Apollo 11 Mission was also crewed by three people. What's more, the launch site was Tampa, Florida, which is just a two-hour drive from the actual NASA launch site on the opposite coast of the Florida Penisula.

Verne's spacecraft even featured retro-boosters used to slow it down before landing, exactly like the ones employed by NASA almost 100 years later.