Objective the Moon

Objective the Moon ( adventures of Tintin: Objective the Moon , Hergé, 1953) is the 16th album of Cartoon of the adventures of Tintin whose continuation is One went on the Moon.

Synopsis

From return of voyage, Tintin and Haddock learn that Tournesol left for the Syldavie where he asks them to join it. They find it in a base secret of atomic research tapie in the middle of the mountains and directed by Mister Baxter. There Tournesol the formless one which it was engaged to lead the realization of a lunar rocket of which it conceived the atomic Moteur and which he is on the point of leaving for the the Moon. Well in spite of them, Tintin and Haddock accept to accompany it. However, of mysterious competitors try to sabotage their plan…

Data sheet

Standard: Cartoon
Scenario: Hergé
Drawings: Hergé, Bob de Moor
Editor: Casterman
Places: Belgium, Syldavie
Time: 1953

Characters

Tintin
Milou
Captain Haddock
Professor Tryphon Sunflower
Baxter
Doctor Rotule

Context

The album left in 1953, that is to say four years before the launching of Sputnik, the first Artificial satellite. Who said that Hergé was not a visionary? One can however notice that the parts of the album Objectif the Moon treating realization of the project are very largely inspired film Destination… The moon! ( Destination Moon ) (Robert Heinlein/Chestley Bonestell) of 1950.

Engineer Wolf speaks about a delivery coming “from the factory from Iéna”; it is obviously about optical material of precision manufactured by Carl Zeiss. However, at the time, Iéna was in communist Democratic republic German, which seems to indicate that the country which builds the rocket (Syldavie, located in Balkans) is an independent power able to carry out a space project as well as relations at the same time with the Eastern European countries and the occident.

Around work

Adaptation

Modifications were made between the publication in boards in the Newspaper of Tintin and the version in two albums. They relate so much to cutting (moved labels, scenes cut such as Milou aspired in the vacuum, Haddock releasing the cord of increase, Dupont using a weapon) that colors (the tank passes from the yellow to blue) or the recasting of certain gags (Haddock butts against a rail and not a demi-john, it is not sprinkled more through a grid,…) for a greater effectiveness.

The Rocket

The rocket of test " XFLR-6" built by professor Tournesol is inspired directly by the V2, the ballistic missile which in the immediate future influenced about all the projects of rocket post-war period, following the systematic plundering of German technology by the allies of the two edges. Hergé takes again the drawing of the V2 rocket thus, in particular the short ailerons (with 3 instead of 4) intended to limit the obstruction of the weapon during its rail transport.

The technical sources of Hergé are mainly the programs and searchs for Wernher von Braun and Hermann Oberth, which projected, as of pre-war period, to cause an impact on the Moon with a rocket (an echo of this project is found in Z like Zorglub of Franquin and Greg ). This same Oberth is being the technical adviser of a film of Fritz Lang the Woman on the Moon " Frau im Mond" (1929), of which the scenario, decorations and options technological (in particular the " operate retournement" , solution under consideration by Oberth to solve the thorny question of artificial gravity by acceleration continues) are found presquent completely in Objectif the Moon and One went on the Moon .

The research center

The outside of the research center is in all points similar to the center of separation of the uranium of Oak Ridges, which was a place being used for the execution of the Projet Manhattan in the Années 1940 with the the United States.

Anecdotes

It is the first appearance of the Doctor Rotule, doctor in the adventures of Tintin which one will find in the Jewels of Castafiore .

In this album, the Professor Tournesol spade one of most famous angers of the history of the cartoon, repeating “Ah! I make the Zouave. ” . One learns thus that to treat it of zouave is one of worst the Insulte S than one can make him with his scientific competence, and than it can include/understand in spite of his problem of hearing (except in Coke in Stock ).

At the time of the anger of Sunflower, this last hangs a guard with a Porte-manteau and Haddock tells him " In the name of the sky, Tryphon, is calmed! " . Thus, curiously, it addresses as tu (what it will remake in Vol 714 for Sydney ) whereas they generally always speak each other by addressing as vous.

At the time of its anger, Tryphon Sunflower called to the Haddock captain by showing engineers drawing plans: " And these people-there, they make also the zouaves, undoubtedly " (page 40, C2 box). However, among these " people-là" , one notices Edgar Pierre Jacobs that Hergé had fun to represent.

the squares red and white of the rocket regularly change place through the boxes.

On the cover, Sunflower present at Haddock and Tintin the rocket whereas they are already far in front. In the album, it presents it whereas they stop very close without Tintin and Haddock not noticing it before (in spite of its size). The Jeep does not have besides there a wheel, and the wheels do not touch the ground whereas this last is quite flat and could not thus make leap the vehicle in the air.

Adaptations

Animated series

This album was adapted in the animated series of 1962 and in the animated series of 1992

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