Have a space-obsessed kid in your life? This new Apollo exhibit at Denver Museum of Nature & Science is running through mid-Jan. 22.
The most suspenseful reality show in human history began at 9:32 a.m. on July 16, 1969, witnessed by more than 500 million television viewers and an estimated 1 million on the causeways and beaches of Florida’s Space Coast when Apollo 11 lifted off for the moon.
The timing of the exhibition, as NASA stands poised to launch Artemis, the first moon launch in 50 years, is coincidental but fortuitous. A 1:10 scale replica of the Saturn V rocket and Apollo capsule, 36 feet tall and weighing 1,648 pounds, is displayed at Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Model rocket maker Steve Eves launched the rocket 4,441 feet into the air, and successfully recovered it. “Apollo: When We Went to the Moon,” will be showing at the museum through Jan. 22.
On the opposite wall, Khrushchev is shown saying, “We believe that the people of all nations will see themselves as brothers. There will only be one flag, a flag of friendship, peace, brotherhood. And on that flag will be written, ‘Communist society.’ ” Biographies of Wernher von Braun, the head rocket engineer of the Apollo program, and Sergei Korolev, chief designer for the Soviet space program. Von Braun had been part of the Nazi rocket development program during World War II. Korolev helped the Soviets acquire German missile technology after the war.A replica of a lunar rover, “the first electric car in space,” in which visitors are welcome to take a seat to pose for photos.
An information board listing Colorado astronauts, including one in the Mercury program, three in Apollo, one in Skylab, five in the Space Shuttle program and two who flew with SpaceX.
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