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Destination Moon (Objectif Lune) is one of a series of classic comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero. Destination Moon is the first part of one of the two multi-book stories in the Tintin series, the other being Explorers on the Moon (On a marché sur la Lune). Image File history File linksMetadata Tintin_cover_-_Destination_Moon. ...
Comics (or, less commonly, sequential art) is a form of visual art consisting of images which are commonly combined with text, often in the form of speech balloons or image captions. ...
Georges Remi (May 22, 1907 – March 3, 1983), better known by the pen name Hergé, was a Belgian comics writer and artist. ...
1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1953 calendar). ...
A publisher is a person or entity which engages in the act of publishing. ...
Casterman is an a publishing company in Tournai, Belgium, mostly famous as the publisher of graphic novels, among which Tintin. ...
A genre is a division of a particular form of art according to criteria particular to that form. ...
Tintin, one of the most famous Belgian comics Franco-Belgian comics are comics or comic books written in Belgium and France. ...
Land of Black Gold (originally Tintin au Pays de lOr Noir) is one of a series of classic comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero. ...
1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ...
1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1953 calendar). ...
Explorers on the Moon (originally On a marché sur la Lune) is one of a series of classic comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero. ...
1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Georges Remi (May 22, 1907 – March 3, 1983), better known by the pen name Hergé, was a Belgian comics writer and artist. ...
Tintin and Snowy (Tintin et Milou) are world travellers and inseparable friends in The Adventures of Tintin. ...
Explorers on the Moon (originally On a marché sur la Lune) is one of a series of classic comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero. ...
Destination Moon is the sixteenth in the series.
It is one of two Tintin albums that is not a classic adventure romp, the other being 'The Castafiore Emerald' (Les Bijoux de la Castafiore), although it has a classic adventure style subplot involving espionage. Instead, Destination Moon is an often humorous look into moon rocket technology. English-language edition The Castafiore Emerald (originally Les Bijoux de la Castafiore) is one of a series of classic comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero. ...
Espionage is the practice of obtaining information about an organization or a society that is considered secret or confidential (spying) without the permission of the holder of the information. ...
The storyline Tintin's friend, Professor Cuthbert Calculus has been commissioned by the Syldavian government to build a rocket ship which will fly to the moon. Tintin and Captain Haddock agree to join the expedition. But they soon come to realise that a foreign power is also interested in the project and has planted spies in the research centre where the rocket is being built. Tintin and Snowy (Tintin et Milou) are world travellers and inseparable friends in The Adventures of Tintin. ...
Ariane 5 lifts off with the Rosetta probe on 2nd of March, 2004. ...
Bulk composition of the moons mantle and crust estimated, weight percent Oxygen 42. ...
Belgian writer-artist Georges Remi, a. ...
A prototype of the rocket is being launched. However, this prototype is intercepted by the foreign power and the research team has no other option than to destroy the rocket. As the compound is heavily secured, there must have been a spy who leaked information, but no suspects are found. Spy and secret agent redirect here; for alternate use, see Spy (disambiguation) and Secret agent (disambiguation). ...
Finally, professor Calculus decides to setup a manned mission to the moon, and invites Tintin and Haddock to join him in his mission. poo poo
Scientific accuracy Hergé was keen to ensure that the books were scientifically accurate, despite being written well over a decade before the 1969 moon landings and before manned space flight. 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ...
The rockets used in the two moon exploration Tintin albums bear a striking physical resemblance to V-2 rockets, down to the checkerboard pattern on the hull, that the V-2 designers used to measure the rolling of a rocket during test flights. No separate lunar lander is shown: the whole ship turns about on its axis and lands 'feet down' and returns intact, in stark contrast to the 'leave-bits-behind-everywhere' solution adapted in real life. German test launch. ...
The books portray artificial gravity being generated through the constant acceleration of the moon rocket. When the rocket is turned around halfway through the journey (to decelerate), the crew experiences weightlessness for a short time, and the effects of this weightlessness are correctly portrayed, including floating spherical liquid.
The space-suits worn are shown as being bulky and having glass fishbowl-like helmets, with bulky backpacks integrated including radio communications with the ship and other astronauts. In all, they bear a very close resemblance to the actual suits worn by Neil Armstrong etc. They are shown as being orange, not white, although this seems a minor point and a colour adopted by workers in many hazardous situations on Earth. The helmets do not have the 'sunglasses' type tint that actual astronauts had, although since this made it easier to draw it is not clear how intentional this is. Hergé did well with his efforts showing the humans moving around: Tintin and friends do not walk, but hop in huge jumps, just as the astronauts in the moon landings later did. They have a lunar rover vehicle. Herge was delighted to have predicted the lunar mission so accurately, and produced a cartoon of Tintin greeting Neil Armstrong on the moon. Neil Alden Armstrong (born August 5, 1930) is a former American astronaut, test pilot, and naval aviator famous as the first human ever to set foot on the Moon. ...
Neil Alden Armstrong (born August 5, 1930) is a former American astronaut, test pilot, and naval aviator famous as the first human ever to set foot on the Moon. ...
The rocket is described as being nuclear-powered: although nuclear power has made it into space in real life its use on manned ships has not been widespread because of the safety risks. It is also important to mention that its propulsive usage bears absolutely no resemblance to a traditional 'booster' rocket. However, in a power generation capacity as well as research into Ion-propulsion, it has seen limited use on space probes. The only other notable failing comes when the crew look back at earth: they see it correctly, except that there are no clouds. A nuclear power station. ...
Notes Bernard Heuvelmans, advisor to Hergé during the creation of the moon exploration albums, originally wrote a script for Destination Moon that took place in the USA. Hergé even drew a couple of pages before giving preference to his own setting, the fictional Slavic country of Syldavia. Compare The Shooting Star which involves a European coalition of scientists beating out Americans on a race to a fallen comet. Bernard Heuvelmans (October 10, 1916 – August 22, 2001) was a scientist, explorer, researcher, and a writer probably best known as a founder of cryptozoology. ...
Syldavia is a fictional Balkan country featured in the adventures of Tintin by Hergé. The language spoken is Syldavian. ...
The Shooting Star (Létoile Mysterieuse) is one of a series of classic comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero. ...
It is rather odd that although Tintin and Haddock have been designated for months to be the first men on the moon, they only get to see the rocket when it is in the final stages of completion. Then again, in order to see it, Calculus the designer has to break every security rule in the book!
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