‘Fly Me to the Moon’ explores the ultimate space race conspiracy theory. Here’s what’s fact and fiction in the movie.

The lead characters in “Fly Me To The Moon,” Kelly and Cole, appear to be fictional. However, the movie does feature some real-life figures.

Nick Dillenburg, Christian Zuber, and Colin Woodell play Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin: the first humans to land on the moon.

The movie also features NASA astronauts Ed White, Roger Chaffee, and Gus Grissom. In real life and in the movie, they died in a cabin fire in 1967 during a launch rehearsal test for the Apollo 1 spaceship.

The final two real-life figures in the movie are former USSR president Nikita Khrushchev and Yuri Gargarin, the first man to travel to space in 1961.

NASA used a public relations campaign promote the space program

NASA’s PR team helped television stations broadcast live footage of part of Apollo 11’s flight.

Television networks used models to simulate the rest of the space flight when live footage was unavailable. But there’s no evidence to suggests NASA or any network tried to fake the moon landing.

A television camera was mounted on the side of Apollo 11 to capture Armstrong’s first steps on the moon, and the rest is history.

“Fly Me to the Moon” is out now in theaters.