You might picture the room where a team worked in the 1960s to plan the American moon landing as one of quiet, cubicled, strictly scientific intensity. In the portrait provided by playwright Deborah Brevoort in The Blue-Sky Boys, now playing at Florida Studio Theatre, you’d be wrong.

In Brevoort’s retelling of the race to the moon against the Soviets, the blue-sky boys of the title are a trio of engineers (not scientists) who work (and play) in a room stacked with monitors and screens, sure, but also with comic books and sci-fi movie posters. The leader, Jed Berman (Danny Bernardy), and his two co-workers, avid duck hunter CJ Caldwell (Johnny Shea) and numbers man with a German accent, Vencel von Volp (Kraig Swartz), are as likely to consult fictional and historic figures for help as they are tech manuals.

In fact, as they “blue-sky” their ideas, with nothing ruled out, they draw inspiration from spaceman of the future Buck Rogers, real-life astronomer Galileo, the Greek god Apollo (very frat dude here), the doomed Icarus and even The Red Baron and Snoopy, all of whom become present onstage thanks to actors Greg Balla, Howard Kaye and Gil Brady. It’s all about taking to the skies, after all, no matter when or how.

Their approach is fun, if sometimes a bit unbelievable, but it’s super frustrating for Howard Haggerty (Patrick Noonan), the seemingly no-nonsense man at the top as the engineering team moves from their almost hidden quarters in Langley, Virginia, to bigger ambitions in Houston. He’s the one who’s got to report to the President, after all, and the President (whether Kennedy or Johnson) is pushing very, very hard.

Spoiler alert: We made it to the moon, in July of 1969. (Unless you are among those who believe it was all faked, etc.). But it’s often intriguing to see how we got there, despite failures and even tragedy, powered by imagination. Director Richard Hopkins, associate director Kate Alexander, scenic designers Isabel & Moriah Curley-Clay, projections designer Dylan Uremovich, and even the music of Jim Prosser and choreography by Ben Liebert help us get there, too, in this production. (Yes, there is some dancing onstage, in an exhilarating moment in Act II.)

I’m sure there’s a lot of science we whiz right by in The Blue-Sky Boys, but it is entertaining to watch how the show does package for the average audience member the complexities of what is, after all, rocket science, duh. Most of us will be willing to suspend disbelief, I suspect.

The Blue-Sky Boys continues through March 8 at the Gompertz Theatre. For tickets, call (941) 366-9000 or go to floridastudiotheatre.org.