Enlisting Bedford's help, Cavor eventually succeeds in proving the "gravitational opacity" of cavorite and together the two men depart for the Moon in a glass-lined steel sphere powered by Cavor's invention. Bedford, a struggling, debt-ridden playwright. In Wells' original 1901 novel, the story, set in the rural village of Kent, focused on an eccentric scientist, Cavor, conducting anti-gravity experiments on a man-made substance called 'Cavorite,' and his neighbor, Mr. In fact, one of the first silent films to become an international success was French filmmaker Georges Melies's 1902 adaptation of Wells' First Men in the Moon, released as Le Voyage dans la lune. Most of them have been enormously successful ( The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, Island of Lost Souls ). More than 62 years after his death, the film industry continues to steal from and rework ideas and storylines from his popular fantasy novels. Wells is still the gold standard when it comes to an indisputable master of the genre.
While many contemporary science fiction and fantasy films find their inspiration in graphic novels and comic books, H.G.
Bedford watches their exploration from earth on television beamed from the moon, and he recalls that Cavor had a cold, which apparently spread and caused the extinction of the Selenites. astronauts on the moon enter the underground city described by Bedford, but they find only mysterious ruin and decay. After many adventures with the Selenites, Bedford becomes hostile to them and returns with Kate to the earth, while Cavor, who is fascinated with the Selenites' scientific advances, chooses to remain behind to meet their leader and further his scientific knowledge. The Selenites live beneath the moon's surface, surviving by filtering the sun's rays through huge crystals placed at their city's gates. They find the moon to be inhabited by Selenites, ant-like creatures with whom Cavor learns to communicate. Bedford contributes money to support the project, in which he sees a possible solution to his financial difficulties, and he and Kate go along on the trip. experts seek out aged Arnold Bedford, who claims to have made the trip to the moon 65 years earlier, and he tells them his story: In a Kentish village in 1899, Bedford, an aspiring playwright, and his fiancée, Kate, meet Joseph Cavor, an eccentric scientist who has discovered an antigravity substance he plans to use in the construction of a spaceship for a flight to the moon. on July 24.The first manned United Nations space flight, with a crew of three astronauts representing the United States, England, and the Soviet Union, lands on the moon, and the crew discover the British flag with a message dated in 1899. on July 22 Apollo 11 began its journey home, safely splashing down in the Pacific Ocean at 12:50 p.m. Among the items left on the surface of the moon was a plaque that read: "Here men from the planet Earth first set foot on the moon-July 1969 A.D.-We came in peace for all mankind."Īt 5:35 p.m., Armstrong and Aldrin successfully docked and rejoined Collins, and at 12:56 a.m. the Eagle began its ascent back to the command module. The two men slept that night on the surface of the moon, and at 1:54 p.m. on July 21, both astronauts were back in the lunar module and the hatch was closed. flag, ran a few simple scientific tests and spoke with President Richard Nixon (1913-94) via Houston.īy 1:11 a.m.
READ MORE: Apollo 11 Moon Landing Timeline: From Liftoff to SplashdownĪldrin joined him on the moon's surface 19 minutes later, and together they took photographs of the terrain, planted a U.S. At 10:56 p.m., as Armstrong stepped off the ladder and planted his foot on the moon’s powdery surface, he spoke his famous quote, which he later contended was slightly garbled by his microphone and meant to be "that's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
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