To the Moon!
by anned
NASA plans to return to the moon by 2020 and hopes to build a moon base by 2024. While you are waiting for the Ares I & V to launch, take a look back at other trips to the moon: Project Apollo and Méliès.
From the Earth to the Moon a superbly done HBO series, produced by Tom Hanks, and based on the book A Man on the Moon by Andrew Chaikin, takes you through the entire Apollo program.
Moon Shot: the inside story of America's race to the moon by astronauts Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton.
First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong by James R. Hansen.
Méliès the magician contains the 1902 "La Voyage dans la lune" along with other films by Méliès.
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