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Background[edit] Verne's novel was not the first literary work to recount a journey to the Moon; these include A True Story, by Lucian (second century AD), Francis Godwin 's The Man in the Moone (1638), the Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon (1657) by Cyrano de Bergerac, John Wilkins 's novel The Discovery of a World in the ...
- Jules Verne
- 1865
Fly Me To The Moon puts a comedic spin on the Apollo 11 mission, but did NASA hire a marketing team and fake the moon landing in real life?
Largely based on Andrew Chaikin's 1994 book, A Man on the Moon, the series is known for its accurate telling of the story of Apollo and the special effects under visual director Ernest D. Farino. The series takes its title from, but is not based upon, Jules Verne 's 1865 science fiction novel From the Earth to the Moon .
YearAwardCategoryNominee(s)1998Best Casting for Mini-SeriesMeg Liberman, Marc Hirschfeld, and ...1998Online Film & Television Association ...Best MiniseriesBest Miniseries1998Online Film & Television Association ...Best Direction of a Motion Picture or ...Best Direction of a Motion Picture or ...1998Online Film & Television Association ...Best Writing of a Motion Picture or ...Best Writing of a Motion Picture or ...Oct 20, 2023 · Based on journalist David Grann's 2017 best-selling book of the same name, Killers of the Flower Moon recounts the true story of how a white businessman and self-proclaimed "true friend" of...
- Megan Mccluskey
Nov 1, 2022 · The director affirmed that Jules Vernes’ novels From the Earth to the Moon (1865) and Around the Moon (1870) were major influences for the film’s overall storyline. The former book follows a...
Jul 9, 2019 · 09 July 2019. Moon on the mind: two millennia of lunar literature. Fireworks, wild swans and super-cannons were propelling people mentally Moonwards long before 1969, reveals David Seed. By. David...
Jun 7, 2019 · Nicolas Copernicus published his heliocentric theory of the universe, which replaced the Earth with the Sun at the center of the solar system; Galileo Galilei spotted sunspots, the phases of...
