Destination Moon (French: Objectif Lune) is the sixteenth of The Adventures of Tintin, the series of comic albums written and illustrated by Belgian artist Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as the hero. Tintin and Captain Haddock receive an invitation from Professor Calculus to come to Syldavia, where Calculus is in the country working on a top-secret project in a state-of-the-art secure government facility. It is the first part of one of the four two-book stories in the Tintin series, the other part being Explorers on the Moon. It is one of two latter-day Tintin albums (the other being The Castafiore Emerald) that is not structured as a straightforward adventure story; instead, it is an episodic sequence of events surrounding the development of a moon rocket. There is, however, a subplot involving espionage to hold the episodes together. Tintin's friend Professor Calculus has been secretly commissioned by the Syldavian government to build a rocket ship that will fly from the Ear. …