The Apollo 11 command module (right) and a drawing of the fictional space ship described by Jules Verne. The command module that carried the three Apollo 11 astronauts was called Columbia. It was named after the huge columbiad--or cannon--used to launch a manned space ship in Jules Verne's 1865 science fiction novel, From the Earth to the Moon.
Question : What similarities and differences do you see between the real and fictional space ships?
