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3 unusual facts about From the Earth to the Moon


The Fabulous Baron Munchausen

The astronaut/cosmonaut leaves his spacecraft and sights other footsteps on the moon leading him to an old phonograph, then a crashed rocket with a plaque reading Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon.

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore

He takes care of the books, even saving the life of an early French edition of Jules Verne’s From the Earth to the Moon after it suffers a catastrophic injury falling from a shelf.

The Gene Machine

The plot shared many common elements with Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and From the Earth to the Moon, as well as many other literary and historical references to Victorian England, such as Sherlock Holmes, Treasure Island, The Time Machine, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Jack the Ripper and many others.


Émile Bayard

At the end of the 19th century, with a growing interest in photography displacing documentary drawing, Bayard moved to illustrating novels, including Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, L'Immortel by Alphonse Daudet, "Robinson Crusoé by Daniel De Foë", and From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne.

Fred Haise

Adam Baldwin also played Haise in the mini-series From The Earth To The Moon.

James E. Webb

Webb was played by Dan Lauria in the 1998 miniseries, From the Earth to the Moon.

John R. Ellis

He was still photographer for the special effects unit of the Tom Hanks HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon, which aired in April 1998.

Max Wright

He also appeared briefly in the first and second season of the sitcom Friends, as Terry, the manager of Central Perk, played Guenter Wendt in the 1998 HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon and Dr. Josef Mengele in Playing for Time.

Mercury-Redstone 3

The Mercury-Redstone 3 mission was dramatized in the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon episode "Can We Do This?" (starring Ted Levine as Alan Shepard), as well as in Tom Wolfe's book The Right Stuff, and Philip Kaufman's movie The Right Stuff based on the book.

NASA Astronaut Group 2

The first episode, "Can We Do This?", of the HBO miniseries, From the Earth to the Moon depicts the first meeting of the New Nine.

Paul McCrane

Later, after losing most of his hair, he played murderous Emil Antonowsky in RoboCop, followed by astronaut Pete Conrad in From the Earth to the Moon, Guard Trout in The Shawshank Redemption, cancer-absorbing mutant Leonard Betts in The X-Files.

Post Rice Lofts

In 1962 the Rice Hotel was used for a meeting of NASA Astronaut Group 2 - The New Nine - all of whom booked in with the code name "Max Peck" as portrayed on the 1998 HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon.

Robert R. Gilruth

In the 1998 miniseries From the Earth to the Moon he was played by John Carroll Lynch.

Stephen M. Young

In the 1998 miniseries From the Earth to the Moon Young was portrayed by J. Don Ferguson.

Stuart Roosa

In the miniseries From the Earth to the Moon (1998), Roosa was played by George Newbern.

Walter Cunningham

In the 1998 miniseries From the Earth to the Moon Cunningham was played by Fredric Lehne.


see also

Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D

Kevin Pollak as Director (voice) portrayed Joe Shea in From the Earth to the Moon and the voice of Pres. Eisenhower in The Right Stuff