Later, Jules Verne wrote Paris au Vingtieme siecle(Paris in the Twentieth Century) a story he set in the 1960s, 100 years into the future. This story has descriptions of high-speed trains. gas-powered cars, calculators, skyscrapers, and modem methods of communication. Verne imagined all these things at a time when neither he nor anyone in Paris had even a radio! In another book, De la Terre a la Lune(From the Earth to the Moon), he predicted that people would travel in outer space and walk on the moon, a prediction that came true on July 20, 1969. Veme even got some of the details right. Both in his book and in real life, there were three astronauts making the flight to the moon, they took off from Florida, and they came down in the Pacific Ocean on their return.