# From the Earth to the Moon — Character guide

> Key figures in From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne.

- [Impey Barbicane](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/from_the_earth_to_the_moon_se/characters/impey_barbicane.md): Barbicane is the sober Yankee engineer whose calm authority turns a room of Baltimore artillerymen into a moon-shot project, and whose rivalry with Captain Nicholl nearly ends in rifle fire. That rivalry is the story's e
- [Michel Ardan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/from_the_earth_to_the_moon_se/characters/michel_ardan.md): Ardan arrives as a telegram and becomes the project's public face, debating skeptics from a platform before three hundred thousand people and refusing to abandon his loudest heckler to the crowd. Where Barbicane calculat
- [J. T. Maston](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/from_the_earth_to_the_moon_se/characters/j_t_maston.md): Maston is the president's self-declared alter ego, a crippled, gesticulating enthusiast whose loyalty runs ahead of his judgment — he volunteers to die for Barbicane and later begs to join the voyage, only to be told he 
- [Captain Nicholl](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/from_the_earth_to_the_moon_se/characters/captain_nicholl.md): Nicholl is the adversary whose feud with Barbicane predates the moon-shot and nearly derails it, hunting the president through the undergrowth with a discharged rifle and a grievance. His pride is rigid — he insists 'I s
- [General Morgan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/from_the_earth_to_the_moon_se/characters/general_morgan.md): Member of the Gun Club and supporter of the project.
- [Major Elphinstone](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/from_the_earth_to_the_moon_se/characters/major_elphinstone.md): Gun Club member involved in planning the cannon.
- [Murchison](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/from_the_earth_to_the_moon_se/characters/murchison.md): Engineer who oversees the casting of the Columbiad.
- [Tom Hunter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/from_the_earth_to_the_moon_se/characters/tom_hunter.md): Gun Club member and friend of Maston.
- [Bilsby](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/from_the_earth_to_the_moon_se/characters/bilsby.md): Gun Club member known for his fashionable attire.
- [Colonel Blomsberry](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/from_the_earth_to_the_moon_se/characters/colonel_blomsberry.md): Gun Club member who assists with the project.
- [Rodman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/from_the_earth_to_the_moon_se/characters/rodman.md): Name given to the giant cannon built for the moon shot.
- [Sir John Herschel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/from_the_earth_to_the_moon_se/characters/john_herschel.md): Astronomer cited for lunar observations.
- [MM. Boeer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/from_the_earth_to_the_moon_se/characters/boeer.md): Astronomers referenced for lunar observations.

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