"Surely we can't land there.
How far are we from it ?" "About fifteen hundred miles," replied Redgrave, who was sweeping the scene below him with one of the two powerful telescopes which stood on the deck.

"No, it doesn't look very cheerful, does it?
But it's a marvellous sight for all that, and one that a good many people on earth would give one of their eyes to see from here.

I'm letting her drop pretty fast, and we shall probably land in a couple of hours or so.
Meanwhile you may as well get out your moon atlas, and study your lunography.

I'm going to turn the power a bit astern so that we shall go down obliquely, and see more of the lighted disc.

We started at new moon so that you should have a look at the full earth, and also so that we could get round to the invisible side while it is lighted up." They both went below, he to deflect the repulsive force so that one set of engines should give them a somewhat oblique direction, while the other, acting directly on the surface of the moon, simply retarded their fall; and she to get out her maps.
When they got back the _Astronef_ had changed her apparent position, and, instead of falling directly on to the moon, was descending towards it in a slanting direction.