And that really changed in the '60s with Kennedy's vision of man in the moon.
When the villain, Pitch Black (also known as the Bogey Man) returns to snuff out belief in Santa and the other Guardians, Jack Frost is promoted by the Man in the Moon to the team of super hero Guardians whose primary job is to protect children.
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It calls for a rocket that is taller and more powerful even than the boosters that took man to the Moon in the 1960s and 70s.
America put a man in space, put a man in orbit, put a man on the moon, created the world's first reusable spacecraft, sent unmanned probes to other planets and led the world in making important scientific discoveries outside the Earth's atmosphere.
The films, showing man in space, on the Moon, on Mars, and the "unknown", fascinated the boy Rutan.
Little did they know that come April 20, 2012, there would be all kinds of wild changes in the world, like a manned spaceship to the moon, a black man in the White House and a woman maybe even being considered for membership at Augusta National.
So where does that leave the VMA "Moon Man" in the race to the top?
The Dumfries and Galloway town is hosting two weeks of events in honour of the first man to walk on the moon.
He once told me that when he entered Princeton in 1969, man had landed on the moon, inspiring him to pursue physics and space technology.
Unlike the succession of glass plates used in 1941's "The Wolf Man, " through which we viewed the moon-induced metamorphosis of Lon Chaney Jr.
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Grohl has gone on to have success as singer and guitarist with a new band, Foo Fighters, while Love has also carved out an acting career with appearances in The People vs Larry Flynt and Man on the Moon.
Because cats can see in the dark, they need almost no lights, but that particular night the glow of the full moon floods the town, enabling the young man to see every detail from his perch in the bell tower.
America's first man in space, Alan Shepard, who later walked on the moon in 1971's Apollo 14 mission, became a millionaire businessman.
Wells, like Verne, tried to predict how man's first lunar voyage might unfold (The First Men in the Moon, 1901).
We should do it because in a nation where we split the atom, sent a man to the moon, mapped the human genome, where we have some of the most promising treatments and cures available, hard working people should get the care they need when they're sick.
One night in December, he turned it on the moon, and saw what no man had seen before.
In 1971, the three-man U.S. spacecraft Apollo 14 was launched to the moon.
In May he joined with Apollo 17 Commander Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon, to support the opening of a new National Flight Academy that will teach math and science to young people through an aviation-oriented camp.
Joel lay mute and still in his bath, then shivered in his Spider-Man pajamas and refused to get into bed because he had caught sight of the moon through his bedroom window.
Over the course of six days, he unveiled the earthshaking revelations that renowned English astronomer John Herschel--who was stargazing in southern Africa at the time--had seen beavers, bison and man-bats on the moon through his revolutionary new telescope.
According to Piers Bizony, the rival schemes sucked resources from each other: "There was a great deal of confusion in the Soviet space effort in the late 1960s and as a result they didn't have the technology to send a man to the Moon, " he says.
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