The Verne spacecraft would use retro-rockets which became a technology assisting Neil Armstrong and his crewmates in their journey to the Moon.When an oxygen tank on Apollo 13 ruptured, a telescope at Johnson Space Center witnessed the event which happened more than 200,000 miles from Earth. A telescope would be able to view the progress of the journey.A competition for the launch site would ensue between Florida and Texas which actually was resolved in Congress in the 1960s with Kennedy Space Center as the Florida launch site and Houston, Texas, as the Mission Control Center.The shape and size of the vehicle would closely resemble the Apollo command/service module spacecraft. The United States would launch the first human-crewed vehicle to go to the Moon.An illustration from the novel "From the Earth to the Moon" by Jules Verne drawn by Henri de Montaut.
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