Destination Moon (comics) Destination Moon (comics) Destination Moon () is the sixteenth volume of "The Adventures of Tintin", the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. The story was initially serialised weekly in Belgium's "Tintin" magazine from March to September 1950 before being published in a collected volume by Casterman in 1953. The plot tells of young reporter Tintin and his friend Captain Haddock who receive an invitation from Professor Calculus to come to Syldavia, where Calculus is working on a top-secret project in a secure government facility to plan a manned mission to the Moon. Developed in part through the suggestions of Hergé's
SS Belgian Captain The attack was carried out by the Decima Flottiglia MAS of the Regia Marina, using manned torpedoes despatched from the submarine "Ambra". "Empire Centaur" returned to the United Kingdom in Convoy MKS 7, which departed from Algiers on 5 February 1943 and arrived at Liverpool on 17 March. She was bound for Cardiff. "Empire Centaur" was allocated to the Belgian Government in 1943 and renamed "Belgian Captain". The Code Letters ONVS were allocated, and she was placed under the management of Agence Maritime Internationale SA. Her port of registry was Antwerp. "Belgian Captain" was a member of a number of