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elleng

(141,926 posts) Mon Jul 15, 2019, 05:59 PM Jul 2019

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, a 363-foot, life-sized rocket

will be projected onto the obelisk (Washington Monument.) The display will depict a Saturn V model, the same kind that launched the Apollo 11 lunar spacecraft carrying the crew of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins to outer space on July 16, 1969.

https://dc.curbed.com/2019/7/15/20694820/washington-monument-apollo-11-projection-national-mall

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To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, a 363-foot, life-sized rocket (Original Post) elleng Jul 2019 OP

That's pretty bad-ass... ADX Jul 2019 #1

Yes! elleng Jul 2019 #2

So cool! The projection of the #Apollo11 rocket is up on the Washington Monument! mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2019 #3

ADX

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1. That's pretty bad-ass...

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Mon Jul 15, 2019, 06:22 PM

Jul 2019

elleng

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2. Yes!

Reply to ADX (Reply #1)

Mon Jul 15, 2019, 06:24 PM

Jul 2019

It's a great place to live. (It WAS a great place to live.)

mahatmakanejeeves

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3. So cool! The projection of the #Apollo11 rocket is up on the Washington Monument!

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Wed Jul 17, 2019, 11:17 AM

Jul 2019

Liz Mair Retweeted

So cool! The projection of the #Apollo11 rocket is up on the Washington Monument! We’re live with more on how DC is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the moon landing on @fox5dc at 10&11!

Link to tweet

And since it's the internet, an idiot showed up in no time at all:

It’s scientifically impossible today.. and probably 50y from now. 237,000mi and back through radiation 100x that of Chernobyl even though we can only go 200mi today? It’s Santa Claus for dumb adults.

Link to tweet

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