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The Lure Of The Moon
1960
JFK — “WE CHOOSE TO GO TO THE MOON.”
NASA — 1959

The Mercury Seven astronauts with a USAF F-106. From left to right: M. Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Virgil I. Grissom, Walter M. Schirra, Alan B. Shepard, and Donald K. Slayton.
October 4, 1957, The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite. This shattered American confidence in its technological superiority, creating a wave of anxiety known as the Sputnik crisis. Among his responses, President Dwight D. Eisenhower launched the Space Race. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was established on October 1, 1958, as a civilian agency to develop space technology. One of its first initiatives was publicly announced on December 17, 1958. This was Project Mercury, which aimed to launch a man into Earth orbit, return him safely to the Earth, and evaluate his capabilities in space.
“Well, I’m glad they got that out of the way.”
“Hit The Road Jack” b/ Ray Charles
Mercury Astronauts
The Original 7
The Right Stuff
MAY 5, 1961 — Alan Shepard
First American in Space
FEB. 20, 1962 — John Glenn
First American to Orbit the Earth
Gemini (1961)
It takes two to Rendezvous
JUNE 3, 1965 — Ed White
First American to Walk in Space
MARCH 16, 1966 — Neil Armstrong
First Man On The Moon
Apollo (1967)
Apollo 1: initially designated AS-204, was the first crewed mission of the United States Apollo program, the undertaking to land the first man on the Moon. It was planned to launch on February 21, 1967, as the first low Earth orbital test of the Apollo command and service module. The mission never flew; a cabin fire during a launch rehearsal test at Cape Kennedy Air Force Station Launch Complex 34 on January 27 killed all three crew members—Command Pilot Gus Grissom, Senior Pilot Ed White, and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee—and destroyed the command module (CM). The name Apollo 1, chosen by the crew, was made official by NASA in their honor after the fire.
Apollo 8 — Earthrise
Christmas Eve 1968
In The Beginning
God Created The Heavens And The Earth.
Earthrise b/ Bill Anders
Apollo 11 — Shoot The Moon
1969 — ONE SMALL STEP FOR MAN
ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND.
— OriginalNoise.Org
SHOOT FOR THE MOON SHOOT THE MOON MOON SHOT FULL MOON HALF MOON CRESCENT MOON NEW MOON BLUE MOON YELLOW MOON RED MOON ORANGE MOON HARVEST MOON HOWLIN’ AT THE MOON MOON LIGHT MADNESS DEVIL MOON MOON BEAM MOON RAY MOON LUNA LUNATIC FRINGE LUNAR ECLIPSE
1860
Jules Verne —
Jules Verne : The Dreamer
Realizing Fiction
• Around the World in 80 Days
• 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
• Journey To The Center Of The Earth
• From The Earth To The Moon
Voyager
Carl Sagan : The Scientist
Cosmic Message In A Bottle
Contact
Atocha
Mel Fisher : The Treasure Hunter
Lust For Gold
NASA received permission from Eisenhower to recruit its first astronauts from the ranks of military test pilots. The service records of 508 graduates of test pilot schools were obtained from the United States Department of Defense. From these, 110 were found that matched the minimum standards: the candidates had to be younger than 40, possess a bachelor’s degree or equivalent and to be 5 feet 11 inches (1.80 m) or less. While these were not all strictly enforced, the height requirement was firm, owing to the size of the Project Mercury spacecraft. The 110 were then split into three groups, with the most promising in the first group. Shepard was informed of his selection on April 1, 1959. Two days later he traveled to Boston with Louise for the wedding of his cousin Anne, and was able to break the news to his parents and sister. The identities of the seven were announced at a press conference at Dolley Madison House in Washington, D.C.
April 9, 1959: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Deke Slayton. were introduced as The Original 7 Mercury Astronauts. The magnitude of the challenge ahead of them was made clear a few weeks later, on the night of
May 18, 1959: When the seven astronauts gathered at Cape Canaveral to watch the launch of an Atlas, rocket, similar to the one they were going to fly, the danger of their new mission became vividly clear. Two minutes after the first launch any of the astronauts had ever seen, the SM-65D rocket exploded spectacularly, lighting up tropical Florida’s night sky.
Stunned, but in his always calm way, Shepard turned to Glenn and said:
“Well, I’m glad they got that out of the way.”
“Hit The Road Jack” b/ Ray Charles
Mercury Astronauts
The Original 7
The Right Stuff
From The Earth To The Moon
FLORIDA’S SPACE COAST
Cape Canaveral
Cocoa Beach
Banana River
Merritt Island
Mosquito Lagoon
Indian River
Tropical Trail
Dragon Point
— Ormond Hotel (1910)
Ormond Beach (Quest for Speed)
Daytona Beach (“The World’s Most Famous Beach”)
Daytona 500 (NASCAR)
Richard Petty
Richard Pryor
Greased Lightning
Wendell Scott
Cape Canaveral
Titusville
Canaveral National SeaShore
Playalinda Beach
Apollo Beach (Nude On The Moon)
Naked Launch
FLORIDA’S SPACE COAST
Cape Canaveral/
Cocoa Beach/ Kelly Slater
Merritt Island/
Mosquito Lagoon/
Indian River/ Citrus
Banana River Drive/
Tropical Trail/
Dragon Point/
Satellite Beach/ PAFB
Indialantic/ 5th Ave./ US 192
Melbourne Beach/ Kate Upton
Sebastian Inlet/ SURF
Vero Beach/ Spring Baseball
Fort Pierce/ The Highwaymen
1980 — FLORIDA POWER & LIGHT
NO NUKES (1982)
KEY WEST, FLORIDA
1840 —
Seminole (1953) — Categorized as a “western,” Seminole was filmed in the Florida Everglades, depicting the Second Seminole War (1835-1842) and the story of Osceola, the Seminole Chief.“
It’s About Time, It’s About Space.”
1960s TV
I DREAM OF JEANNIE
Cocoa Beach, Florida
I Dream of Jeannie (TV) Pilot
I Dream Of Jeannie (intro) / The Right Stuff (video)
TANG!
Cape Canaveral
1860
Jules Verne
Jules Verne (The Dreamer)
The Man Who Saw The Future
1865
• From The Earth To The Moon (novel) 1865
• Journey To The Center Of The Earth (novel) 1867
• 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (novel) 1869
• Around The World In 80 Days (novel) 1872
• 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (film) 1954
• 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (trailer)
• 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (the ride)
• Around The World In 80 Days (film) 1956
• From The Earth To The Moon (film) 1958
• Journey To The Center Of The Earth (film) 1959
Edward R. Murrow presents an onscreen prologue, featuring footage from A Trip to the Moon (1902) by Georges Méliès, explaining that it is based loosely on the book From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne. Also included is the launching of an unmanned rocket and footage of the earth receding.
In 1872, an English gentleman Phileas Fogg (David Niven) claims he can circumnavigate the world in eighty days. He makes a £20,000 wager (worth about £1.8 million in 2015) with four skeptical fellow members of the Reform Club (each contributing £5,000 to the bet) that he can arrive back eighty days from exactly 8:45 pm that evening.
Voyager
Voyager 1 (1977)
Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan : The Scientist
The Man Who Saw The Past
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage.(13-part TV series) 1980
Cosmos (series-accompanying book)
Contact (novel) 1985
Contact (film) 1997
NOVA (TV) 1974
Disney World (1971)
Future World
Epcot
The Police at Future World — ’79/80
Jack Jones at Top Of The World (Continental Hotel) — 1972
Visited 2806 Shepard Drive (Silver Pines)
w/ Marianne
Richard Belzer — 1982 (Jay Gayoso)
TANG (TV ADS)
Tang Florence Henderson (1978)
Tang Florence Henderson (1979)
Tang Success of Apollo (1970)
Tang And A Bag Of Rocks (1978)
Tang Gemini 4 / The Shuttle (1983)
Space Age Film And Television
The Day The Earth Stood Still (film) 1951
Flash Gordon (film) 1955
Earth vs. The Flying Saucers (film) 1956
The Twilight Zone (TV) 1959-1964
Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea (1961)
The Jetsons, (TV) 1962-1963
The Wild Wild West (TV) 1965-1969
The Outer Limits (TV) 1963-1965
My Favoirite Martian (TV) 1963-1966
Lost In Space (TV) 1965-1968
It’s About Time, It’s About Space (TV) 1966-1967
Time Tunnel (TV) 1966-67
Fahrenheit 451 (film) 1966
The Reluctant Astronaut (1967)
Barbarella (1968)
Star Trek (TV) 1966-1969
2001 A Space Odyssey (1969)
Planet Of The Apes (1969)
Chariots Of The Gods (1970)
Solaris (1972)
NOVA (TV) 1974
Soylent Green (1973)
Rollerball (1975)
Logan’s Run (1976)
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977)
Star Wars (1977)
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) Voyager
Alien (1979) Reitz Union
Flash Gordon (1980) Queen
Heavy Metal (1981)
Atomic Cafe (1982)
No Nukes Music
Artists Against Apartheid
E.T. The Extra Terrestrial (1982) Times Square
Cocoon (1985)
Back To The Future (1985)
The Gods Must Be Crazy — Australia
Earth Girls Are Easy (1988)
Back To The Future 2 (1989)
Back To The Future 3 (1990)
Toy Story (1995)
The Fifth Element (1995)
Contact (film) 1997
October Sky (1999)
Men In Black 2 (2002)
Sunshine (2007)
WALL-E (2008)
Avatar (2009)
MOON (2009)
Men In Black 3 (2012) Apollo 11 Moon Shot
Apollo 13 (1995)
NCIS Moon Rock Episode (2012)
Hidden Figures (2016)
The Martian (2015)
Men In Black International (2019)
For All Mankind (1975)
The Right Stuff (1983)
Growing Up With Rockets (1985)
Port Canaveral Cocoa Beach Reunion 1978
Moon Shot (1994) Deke Slayton documentary
From The Earth To The Moon (1998) Tom Hanks/HBO MiniSeries
First Man (2018)
For All Mankind (2019)
If the Russians had won the race to the Moon.
PLANET OF THE APES
[1968] — APOLLO 8
[2001] — A SPACE ODYSSEY
In The Beginning
2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY (1969)
2001 Hal Asks Dave A Personal Question
2001 A Space Odyssey (trailer)
Stanley Kubrick
DR. STRANGELOVE (1964)
FAIL SAFE (1964)
The Bedford Incident (trailer)
The Bedford Incident “If he fires one, I’ll fire one”ZIEGFELD FOLLIES— 1900
APOLLO THEATER
“Harlem Nocturne” b/ DUKE ELLINGTON
White Stand Up @ Apollo DC Benny
Bill Bailey (1955) Original Moon Walk
HARLEM RENAISSANCE — 1920
THE COTTON CLUB
The Cotton Club (1984) trailer / info
The Cotton Club (History) 1920[1930] —Radio Days
- “FM (No Static at All)” – Steely Dan – 4:52
- “Night Moves” – Bob Seger – 3:27
- “Fly Like an Eagle” – Steve Miller Band – 3:04
- “Cold as Ice” – Foreigner – 3:20
- “Breakdown” – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – 2:44
- “Bad Man” – Randy Meisner – 2:38
- “Life in the Fast Lane” – Eagles – 4:46
- “Do It Again” – Steely Dan – 5:54
- “Lido Shuffle” – Boz Scaggs – 3:42
- “More Than a Feeling” – Boston – 4:45
- “Tumbling Dice” – Linda Ronstadt – 4:51 (Live Version)
- “Poor, Poor Pitiful Me” – Linda Ronstadt – 4:15 (Live Version)
- “Livingston Saturday Night” – Jimmy Buffett – 3:10
- “There’s a Place in the World for a Gambler” – Dan Fogelberg – 5:41
- “Just the Way You Are” – Billy Joel – 4:49
- It Keeps You Runnin’ – The Doobie Brothers – 4:13
- “Your Smiling Face” – James Taylor – 2:43
- “Life’s Been Good” – Joe Walsh – 8:05
- “We Will Rock You” – Queen – 2:04
- “FM – Reprise” – Steely Dan – 2:54