| When | Saturday, July 20, 8 PM – Sunday, July 21, 2019, 2 AM |
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| Sponsor | Air and Space Museum |
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| Co-sponsor | This program is made possible by Boeing with additional support from Raytheon |
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| Venue | Air and Space Museum |
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| Event Location | Museum-wide |
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| Cost | Free
*some events require free tickets and films require purchased tickets* |
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| Get Tickets/Register | airandspace.si.edu… |
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| Categories | After Five, Celebrations, Demonstrations, Films, Gallery Talks & Tours, Performances |
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| | | Details | On July 20, 1969, humans walked on another world for the first time. 50 years later, join us for a late-night celebration of the first Moon landing! Timed Programming:
- Trivia at 8:30 pm, 10:00 pm, and 12:15 am
- "Eyewitness to Space: Art and the Apollo Program" at 9:00pm
- Rebroadcast of Moon landing and first steps at 10:30 pm
- A special countdown at 10:56 pm to celebrate the exact time Neil Armstrong first set foot on the Moon
- Apollo 11-themed musical performance by electronic-duo Quindar from 12am to 2am
- Spacesuit Fashion Show at 1am
Films (tickets required)
- Voyage Dans La Lune, with introduction by space history curator Michael Neufeld, 8:15 pm, free tickets required
- "Mare Tranquillitatis" episode of HBO's From the Earth to the Moon. Join the Museum and others around the country for a live tweet-along of the episode, all about the Apollo 11 Moon landing! 9:00 pm, free tickets required
- To Plant a Flag, 10:15 pm, fees apply
- Apollo 11: First Steps Edition, 11:15 pm, fees apply
- 2001: A Space Odyssey, 12:10 am fees apply
Other activities:
- Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo-themed scavenger hunts
- Astronaut costume designing
- “Lunar traverse” activity that traces the steps the astronauts took from the lunar module across the Moon’s surface (starting from our LM!)
- Hands-on activities and science demonstrations
- Stargazing at the Phoebe Waterman Haas Public Observatory
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| Website | airandspace.si.edu… |
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