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For as long as we could look up at the sky, it seems that humans have always dreamed of visiting the moon. In 1865, novelist Jules Verne wrote "From the Earth to the Moon," a fantastical science fiction novel about a group of men launching themselves to the moon out of a giant cannon. As impossible as such a thing seemed, the U.S. made fiction a reality in 1969 with the Apollo 11 landing. The Apollo program was truly one of the most monumental events in human history, and it was one of NASA's most expensive space missions ever .

The Apollo 11 landing was also the subject of a particularly excellent HBO miniseries, which utilizes the same name as the aforementioned Jules Verne novel.…