Moon River have covered the song include Rod Stewart in "Fly Me to the Moon... The Great American Songbook Volume V" (2010), which charted at No. 4 on the Billboard 200, and Barbra Streisand in "The Movie Album" (2003), a Grammy-nominated gold album. Diffuser.fm named these the "Top 5 Alt-Rock" versions of the song: The Killers, Glasvegas, R.E.M., Morrissey and Josh Ritter. Moon River "Moon River" is a song composed by Henry Mancini with lyrics by Johnny Mercer. It was originally performed by Audrey Hepburn in the 1961 movie "Breakfast at Tiffany's", winning an Academy Award for Best Original Song. The song
The Man Who Sold the Moon is multi-staged, while "Destination Moon" uses a single-stage-to-orbit spaceship that takes off and lands vertically, both on Earth and the Moon. (Dialogue in the film makes it very clear that the spaceship is nuclear powered.) The novella also inspired David Bowie's song "The Man Who Sold the World", in both its title and its central themes. Harriman appears in "Requiem" as an old man who has still not been able to go to the Moon. It was published in 1940, 11 years before "The Man Who Sold the Moon". The name "Harriman" reappears in many "Future History" stories as the