Mooning About on TCM

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, Turner Classic Movies is doing 24 hours of classic movies about the moon and the space program, including the awesome 1989 documentary For All Mankind.

Also on offer is the movie many believe might be the first real sci-fi film, Destination Moon, as well as the massively entertaining The Right Stuff. (A bunch of real astronauts and NASA types walked out of the Right Stuff premiere in Houston -- not quite the way they remembered it!)

You might also want to tune in for the 12-minute 1902 French hit, A Trip to the Moon, which seems charmingly quaint today but was a sensation for its time. And of course don't miss the magnificently awful Capricorn One, in which the government fakes a Mars landing. Really, really bad.

Astronaut David Scott salutes the flag/Getty Images