The first, launched in 2008, was named after celebrated French science fiction author, Jules Verne.
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By weaving science lessons into roiling adventure tales, Verne and Hetzel strove to circumvent those strictures.
Verne's vehicle is not a rocket but a projectile launched into space by a gigantic cannon.
"Pat was a friend of nearly 40 years, " CBS Sports broadcaster Verne Lundquist said.
The Jules Verne was filled with 3, 490kg of propellant for rendezvous, re-boost and de-orbit manoeuvres.
The good news for Verne readers:Steadily, the 40-odd badly translated works are being improved in new editions.
Yet each comes off a piker when compared to the true master of industrial clairvoyance, Jules Verne.
In 1902, the visionary Jules Verne said he didn't think novels would exist in 50 or 100 years.
The material includes a few unpublished typescripts, first editions and inscribed books from Jules Verne and Thornton Wilder.
The strange subterranean world that Verne describes isn't too far removed from the landscapes on the surface in Iceland.
Verne's English publishers, however, didn't favor this same didacticism, and early translators chopped out whole chunks of Verne's work.
Until 1875, Verne earned a flat sum for each manuscript, with no royalties.
Wells, like Verne, tried to predict how man's first lunar voyage might unfold (The First Men in the Moon, 1901).
But the time did not qualify for the Jules Verne trophy as it began in Barcelona and ended in Marseilles.
Spurred on by his publisher, Pierre-Jules Hetzel, Verne often included in the texts didactic technical explanations of how his inventions worked.
Verne may not have been a great businessman, but he remained intrigued until the end of his life by matters financial.
She is an experienced yachts-woman, having raced with Tracey Edwards on her Jules Verne attempt in 1997 aboard Royal Sun Alliance.
Verne was partly right: Newspaper writers have learned to color everyday events.
"It is invigorating to see our combined efforts become a reality, " said Verne Harris, head of the Nelson Mandela Center of Memory.
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After Endeavour leaves the ISS, Europe's first cargo ship, an unmanned Automated Transfer Vehicle called Jules Verne, will get its chance to dock.
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Verne Wisby, 68, suffers from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a lung disease linked to smoking that can cause respiratory infections and breathing trouble.
Parked directly on top of the mountain is a vast Ice Age glacier that Jules Verne, who never visited Iceland, neglected to mention in his novel.
None have ever been seen alive, and the animal often features in maritime legends and fables, including Jules Verne's 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea.
The remaining housemates are TV presenter Ulrika Jonsson, Grammy Award-winning US rapper Coolio, Hollywood actor Verne Troyer, singer Ben Adams and TV presenter Terry Christian.
Verne books are freebies for publishers, since European and U.S. law puts previously published work into the public domain 70 years after an author's death.
In Paris in the Twentieth Century, published for the first time in 1994, Verne described fax machines, gas-powered cars and an elevated mass transit system.
Officials who were working the California-Utah game next Verne Harris, Deron White and Dave Hall also were in the locker room getting ready.
Jules Verne's book was made into an Academy Award-winning movie in 1954 with Kirk Douglas starring as sailor Ned Land and James Mason as Nemo.
Everybody came to see it the Prince of Wales, Jules Verne, Zola.
Verne's world of yawning crevices and subterranean monsters seems close by.
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