Artemis II moonshot reflects a spacefaring vision present in Jules Verne’s 19th-century novel

Artemis II moonshot reflects a spacefaring vision present in Jules Verne’s 19th-century novel

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Artemis II Moonshot Reflects a Spacefaring Vision Present in Jules Verne’s 19th‑Century Novel

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — With the launch of NASA’s Artemis II mission on April 1, 2026, human beings have finally returned to the Moon for the first time in 50 years – since the age of Apollo. When Apollo 11 first landed on the lunar surface, the astronauts portrayed their accomplishment as the realization of a science fictional dream. In a televised broadcast during their return, Neil Armstrong explicitly evoked Jules Verne’s 1865 novel “From the…