Behind Lunar Landings, Flights of Imagination - NYTimes.com

Behind Lunar Landings, Flights of Imagination - NYTimes.com: "FORTY years ago Monday, Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the Moon. But for millennia before him people had been imagining that giant leap in fiction, fables and film. They flew to the Moon in rocket ships, winged chariots and projectiles fired from huge guns. There they met giants, insect-men, Nazis and topless women."