From the Earth to the Moon — 4 karakter
Impey Barbicane
President of the Gun-Club and a respected American citizen. He made a large fortune in the timber trade, was put in charge of artillery units during the Civil War, and contributed greatly to ballistics with his creative intelligence. Once the war ended, he re-ignited his bored artillery friends by offering them a new, civilian goal (sending a shell to the Moon) to channel their energy. He is a man with high leadership qualities who solves all mechanical, social, and psychological obstacles with mathematical rationality. Unlike the storm of excitement surrounding him, he is practically an emotionless, cool-headed, and tireless man of action who serves as the main driving force of the story.
J. T. Maston
He is the lively, restless head secretary of the Gun-Club. After a mortar shattered, he left a part of his body on the battlefield but never lost his endless love for artillery. He approaches events with an utterly extremist appetite. He craves jumping into any danger and loves being choked by the smoke of the largest cannon available. He is Barbicane's most loyal sidekick, and when the projectile is launched, he is the one who monitors them with hope and sadness from his telescope on Earth, unable to join them to the Moon.
Kaptan Nicholl
He is the first great enemy and dissenting voice of the Gun-Club project. He gained a legendary reputation during the Civil War for casting impenetrable iron armor for ships and military bunkers. He drew Barbicane's ire as Barbicane built more piercing weapons. When the moon-shell launch was planned, he went to war against the project, citing countless theoretical and material excuses based on his belief that it was impossible, and wagered his fortune on massive bets. Eventually, he comes face to face with his enemy Barbicane and the Frenchman Michel Ardan in a forest for a duel. After peace negotiations that completely extinguished his grudge, he shows revolutionary chivalry and joins the passenger crew.
Michel Ardan
The legendary French artist and courageous intellectual who added dimension to the event by saying it was meaningless for only an empty shells to go to the Moon, and injected the vision of a spaceship into the book. Famous in Europe for his appetite for danger, Ardan figuratively hypnotizes the American continent upon his landing in Tampa-Town. He is the hero who bends the stiff seriousness of science with the humanity of art and humor, not only making Barbicane and Captain Nicholl reconcile but also taking wing with them into the world's most dangerous journey with insouciant elegance.