Posted on 07/20/2019 11:29:11 AM PDT by Tammy8
There’s a 363-foot rocket ready to launch in the middle of Washington, D.C.
The life-sized animation of NASA’s Saturn V will loom above the National Mall every night this week, projected onto the Washington Monument. The after-dark light show is a gigantic tribute from the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum to honor the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission that put two astronauts on the moon.
“Nothing like this had ever been done before,” said executive producer Nick Partridge of the projection.
To pull off the feat, he and co-executive producer Katie Moyer needed special permission from the U.S. Congress, buy-in from the White House, and collaboration with the Department of the Interior. Partridge and Moyer partnered with the design studio 59 Productions, best known for their work at the London Summer Olympics opening ceremony in 2012.
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Yes,it’s incredible but I believe that is all we could do in today’s NASA.
It’s harder to get killed watching videos.
There were no candy-asses in that program
Here’s a great slide show of the moon landing.
https://www.nationalreview.com/photos/apollo-11-moon-landing-nasa-1969/#slide-1
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