10. April 2026 – some 160 years after Jules Verne’s Science Fiction story about going around the moon and back – The crew on board «Artemis II» return from the furthest space journey ever. Their capsule splash down into the  ocean, in the exact same manner as in Verne’s fantasy.
The NASA speaker on TV, pays homage to Verne’s  Voyage Extraordinaire.

NASA announcer:
«From the pages of Jules Verne to a modern day mission to the Moon,
a new chapter of the exploration of our celestial neigbour is complete.»

A de-Hetzelised Verne
As also a NEW,  scholarly edition in English just came out (De la Terre à la Lune + Autour de la Lune, translated after Verne’s pre-Hetzel, untampered manuscript)  – a message for the International Jules Verne Forum online,  was due:

PJM:
«Journey to the Moon» – Coward and Butcher

As the ‘Artemis II’ MoonVoyage is returning to Earth from The dark side of the Moon…
I Just wanted to remind and recommend all JV Forum Friends,
of the Impressive work by David Coward and William Butcher,
in the Oxford World’s Classics series: «Journey to the Moon»
– timely presented as: «This edition the first ever to appear as the author wished»,
as it covers ‘TL’ & ‘AL’ together.

Both the translation, and, to me above all, the truly interesting critical material,
with Introduction and Appendix which clarifies the novel’s inception and development, makes this a SciFi Milestone.

What is also noteworthy, is the focus on those different published versions that exist in French.
(Not to mention the adapted ‘translations’ – on which commentators previously have misjudged the novel)

best, Per Johan M
PS.
( Going around the Moon and back, was once an incredible, futuristic vision of Verne.
Today, news desks are relaxed to such feats – let’s see if the return of Artemis II reaches top headline.
Then again, if TV screens show astronauts playing Domino upon reentry to our world …)