The Moon Landing (1865)
To be fair, a lot of fiction imagined what it might be like if humans were capable of flying to the moon. But, an 1865 novel by the legendary “father of science fiction,” Jules Verne, got closer with more of the details than most.
Not only did he write about the weightlessness that astronauts experience, something an author in the mid-19th century would have no way of knowing, but he also predicted that there would be three astronauts on that first moon mission and that Tampa, Florida, would be the launch site.
More than a century later, the Apollo 11 mission launched Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin into space in July 1969 from the Kennedy Space Center, in nearby Merritt Island, Florida. Consider our minds blown.
