Jules Verne, a Frenchman and a lawyer, devoted himself to writing enduring fantasies. Even more than a century after the author's birth, his grandson came to America in order to christen the "Nautilus" (the name his grandfather had given to his imaginary submarine). Sir Hubert Wilkins, an explorer, used it to reach the North Pole. Verne was a dreamer and a writer. Among his first efforts was a children's story entitled "A Trip in a Ballon." He also wrote stories about a voyage to the center of the eEarth about, a rocket trip to the moon, and about a numbher of incredible voyages by submarine and airplane. Isn't this remarkable, since he was born in 1828 and died in 1905, long before we had rocket ships and submarines? Many of the achievements of our scientific and mechanical age are the realization of his marvelous visions. The sSpace explorations, although not a direct result of Verne's vision , closely exemplify his cognizance of the "possibility of the impossible."