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- It's now only ten days until the launch. The gun-cotton has been successfully loaded in, despite the fact that people "did not hesitate [...] to smoke their cigars" (25.2) right next to this highly explosive material.
- They can only bring a limited amount of food, however. To counteract this, they tell Maston to shoot capsules of food from the cannon whenever the moon gets close enough.
- Finally—and to much fanfare—they load the capsule into the cannon.