“How do you tell a fictional story about a fake moon landing with some real facts sprinkled in?

That was the challenge facing Rose Gilroy as she wrote “Fly Me to the Moon,” a romantic comedy set against the backdrop of the 1969 Apollo 11 space mission [from a story by Associate Producer Bill Kirstein]. With the blessing of NASA, the first-time screenwriter pored over transcripts of launch engineers and devoured countless books, including “Sunburst and Luminary” by Don Eyles, who assisted programming and troubleshooting the lunar module.”

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