The Trip to the Moon by M.A. Bennett
The adventures of the time-travelling Butterfly Club continue . . .
Film is set to become the new craze. Butterfly Club member and filmmaker Georges Melies pleads to be allowed to go forward in time to harvest a movie camera from the future to make his ambitious film, A Trip to the Moon.
The Butterfly Club call up Professor Lorenz's hologram from 1969. The professor reports that all of America is abuzz too, with the most ambitious scientific project in history - an actual trip to the moon. But the mission has stalled in the most terrible way - an accident on the launchpad resulted in the astronauts being trapped in a fatal fire.
For the first time ever it is the professor who asks the time thieves for help - he invites them to come to 1969 and stop the dreadful accident, and make sure the trip to the moon can go ahead.