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      • But no, it's not based on a true story. At least, not totally. It is based on real historical events, namely the Apollo program and America's race against the Soviet Union, commonly known as the Space Race, to put a man on the moon.
  1. Jul 12, 2024 · The basic premise is that NASA couldn’t make JFK’s deadline so they sent astronauts into Earth’s orbit and staged a moonwalk in a film studio.

  2. While loosely based on a true story, Fly Me To The Moon takes creative liberties, like depicting a fake moon landing deviating from real history.

  3. Johansson’s character is loosely inspired by Julian Scheer, a journalist-turned-public relations expert, who worked for NASA in the 1960s and coordinated news coverage of Apollo 11. He wasn’t...

  4. Background. 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 Moone ...

    • Jules Verne
    • 1865
  5. Jul 9, 2024 · However, the film’s fictional conceit plays upon the popular conspiracy theory that claims the moon landings were ultimately a hoax staged by NASA to convince people that the space race was well and truly over in a victorious landslide against the Soviet Union.

  6. But no, it's not based on a true story. At least, not totally. It is based on real historical events, namely the Apollo program and America's race against the Soviet Union,...

  7. Jul 12, 2024 · The Apple Original movie Fly Me to the Moon might be loosely based on the historic Apollo 11 moon landing, but it changes aspects of the true story.

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