"Fly Me to the Moon" and the Persistence of Lunar Lunacy
Chris Klimek
Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum meet cute en route to the Moon.
Fly Me to the Moon is an ahistorical comedy about the selling (and near selling-out) of the Apollo program. I spoke to my National Air and Space Museum curator friend Margaret A. Weitekamp about it, and to NASA Chief Historian Brian Odom, for this Smithsonian piece about why some people just won’t accept that America went to the Moon.