When the day nears its end and we gaze at the night sky, we expect to see the Moon. The Moon has been in our night sky longer than any of us have been alive. So people from many different ages all had a chance to view the Moon. In fact, in 1806 Thomas Moore Wrote a poem called "Fly Not Yet." I have the link to the poem beneath this article. In the poem, Thomas Moore seems to show his deep appreciation for the beauty of the Moon.
Even Robert Louis Stevenson wrote a poem about the moon. It seems to show a mild, childish appreciation for it. This seems like the writing of Walt Whitman where everything is appreciated no matter how much it is viewed.
The main literature on the moon that our group discovered was mainly written in science fiction novels by Jules Verne. The two works that reflected the moon landing were From the Earth to the Moon and Round the Moon. That seems ironic that issues discussed were science fiction in 1800's and then were science fact in 1969. From the Earth to the Moon was one of the first science fiction novels with outer space as the setting. Strangely enough, amazon.com still declares both works as science fiction. I don't really understand why it's still SCIENCE fiction. The story is fiction, for sure. But when I think of science fiction, I think of creepy aliens or vampires or other phenomena that usually defy science. Even though the "astronauts" in the story were shot out of a giant cannon, Moon travel is possible.
Can you imagine if you would travel back to the 1800's and discussed the Moon landing with the average person? They would assume you read the works of Jules Verne. Have you ever seen Back to the Future Part III? More or less that exact situation happens. There seems to not even be a hope for that technological advancement.
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