The Eagle Has Landed Late-Night Celebration

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 9:00 pm
• Rebroadcast of Moon landing and first steps at 10:30 pm
• A special countdown at 10:56 pm ET to celebrate the exact time Neil Armstrong first set foot on the Moon
• Apollo 11-themed musical performance by electronic-duo Quindar from midnight to close
• Spacesuit Fashion Show at 1 am

Films (Get tickets below)

• Voyage Dans La Lune, with introduction by space history curator Michael Neufeld
  8:15 pm
• 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
• 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 on the Moon’s surface (starting from our LM!)
• Hands-on activities and science demonstrations
• Stargazing at the Phoebe Waterman Haas Public Observatory

This program is made possible by

Boeing

with additional support from

Raytheon