Turn the clock back to July
1969 and see newspapers, collectibles, rocket models and other items celebrating
the Apollo 11 mission to the moon – including a piece of the moon itself – in a
special display coming to The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk.
Open from July 1 through Labor Day (Sept. 2), the special Apollo
11 display will commemorate the historic moon landing on July 20, 1969, and
also enhance the Aquarium’s daily presentations
of the IMAX movie “Apollo 11: First Steps Edition.” Among the items to be
displayed are newspapers from the day, buttons and patches, View-Master®
slides, spacecraft models, NASA documents, booklets and other items relating to
the infamous giant leap for mankind.
Most interestingly, the collection includes a book
autographed by Apollo 11 astronaut Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, as well as a small
piece of the moon: part of a lunar meteorite found on Earth.
There’s no extra charge for Aquarium guests to view
the display in the IMAX Theater lobby. (It also can be viewed for free by
entering through the IMAX Theater entrance.)
The display ties perfectly
with the IMAX movie “Apollo 11: First Steps Edition,” which lets audiences
relive the wonder and drama of the first mission to land men on the moon,
presented daily on The Maritime Aquarium’s six-story screen – the largest IMAX
Theater in Connecticut.
With
never-before-seen 70mm footage and newly discovered audio recordings,
director-editor Todd Douglas Miller reconstructs the Apollo 11 mission in
seat-gripping detail: the final preparations, countdown, liftoff, moon landing
and splashdown return. The movie has no narration; for its 47 minutes,
audiences follow the mission just as the entire world watched it unfold during
those incredible eight days in 1969.
Show times from July 1 to Labor Day, show times will be 1 & 4 p.m. daily, with one
exception: on Sat., July 20 (the actual 50th anniversary of the moon landing),
“Apollo 11: First Steps Edition” will be the only film to play in the IMAX
Theater.
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