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Topic: Apollo 17 splashdown and sci-fi illustration

stsmithva
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Posts: 1933
From: Fairfax, VA, USA
Registered: Feb 2007

posted 01-22-2010 06:47 AM

Sometime ago I saw a comparison between a photograph of the Apollo 17 CM after splashdown (with USS Ticonderoga in the background) and an illustration from a science fiction novel written about 100 years ago about space travel. The coincidental similarities were eerie - same vantage point, and the capsule and the ship were in the same places.

I'd like to print this out, but I can't remember if it was on cS or some other source. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?

heng44
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From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001

posted 01-22-2010 07:40 AM

Sounds like the illustration from Jules Verne's book "From the Earth to the Moon." I have seen similar comparisons at the time of Apollo 8 of various stages of a moonflight.

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