Daily Archives: 4/15/2010

Inspiration for Moonbounce Day…

Okay, I’m stretching with this one: it’s a link to archive.org and their movie Le voyage dans la lune (A Trip To the Moon, or maybe A Voyage In the Moon) which is perhaps one of the very first science fiction movies, dating back to 1902. At the start of the 20th century, this was how people imagined a trip to the moon might occur. The same people who saw this film as young children could also have witnessed Apollo 11. Pretty amazing.


If you’d like a less fanciful source about the moon, you could try this NASA documentary on Apollo 11: