Flight to the moon
Jules Verne predicted people flying to the moon in 1865. He described the possibility of landing a man on the Moon in great detail, in his novel From the Earth to the Moon. And even with no empirical data on the subject at the time, some of his figures are very accurate. For example, he writes that 1,600,000 pounds of powder will be needed to create 6,000,000,000 liters of gas.