Accidental Astronaut: Near the end of the story, after Bedford has been forced to leave Cavor behind on the moon and barely made it back to Earth in the sphere they designed, a curious boy enters the sphere and activates it, sending him off into space, and leaving Bedford with no way of ever going back to retrieve Cavor.

Though not a full-on adaptation, the first volume of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen also features Professor Cavor as a major supporting character, and a struggle to possess the Cavorite that fuels his spaceship ends up driving much of the plot. Wells original, with Professor Cavor and Bedford engaging in their flight to the moon alone. The 2010 film sticks much more closely to the H. Only Bedford is still alive and tells the story.

This discovery drives the plot, as the UN and many journalists seek out these men to get them to recount their first mission to the moon in the 1800s. They discover a Union Jack flag on the surface and a note naming Bedford and Cavor, claiming the Moon for Queen Victoria. A multi-national group of astronauts in the UN spacecraft land on the Moon, believing themselves to be the first lunar explorers.

In the 1964 film, the United Nations has launched a rocket flight to the Moon. There have been two film adaptations made one in 1964, directed by Nathan Juran, written by Nigel Kneale, and with special effects by Ray Harryhausen, and more recently in 2010 by Mark Gatiss.

Wells about two Edwardian-era Englishmen who utilise some Applied Phlebotinum to fly to the moon for a bit of a jolly gadabout. The First Men in the Moon is a 1901 Science Fiction novel by H.

The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells