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Tom Hanks remembers the precise moment the moon made his head explode--or at least that's how he describes it. It was December 1972, and Hanks ran home from school to see the transmissions that the Apollo 17 astronauts were beaming back live from the surface of the moon...
A lot of boomers--especially boy boomers--snapped their terrestrial moorings the same way back then. But in the 33 years of space travel that followed--33 years defined by a fallow manned program and two lost shuttle crews--most of them shook off their moon bliss entirely. Not so...
At 49 years old, the actor, director and producer has made something of a second career out of spreading the lunar word, first with his star turn in 1995's Apollo 13, then with his 1998 HBO series, From the Earth to the Moon. Now Hanks is working the space...
What is it about the pull of the moon that holds Hanks fast? Why does a high-powered Hollywood player with the muscle to tackle pretty much any production he wants keep returning to his lunar love?
In the cavernous conference room of the IMAX headquarters in Santa Monica, Calif., Hanks doesn't look like a man consumed by the moon. He looks like a man getting over a cold--coughing, sipping hot tea and racing to get through the last few weeks of postproduction before heading...