Press Pack 2019: MOON YEAR ALL 2019: Moon Space News
The Chinese Change-4 mission on the dark side of Chandrayaan 2: Indian Mission to the Moon the Moon (landing carried out in January 2019) (landing scheduled for 2019) On 3 January, the Chinese Chang’e-4 probe An Indian Space Agency (ISRO) Moon Probe. It completed the first landing on the dark side of our includes an orbiter (which will orbit around the natural satellite. CNSA (the Chinese space agency) Moon) and a lander named Vikram in tribute to confirmed in early April that the Yutu-2 rover and Vikram Sarabhai, one of the founders of the Indian the lander survived their first Moon night. space programme. The lander is carrying a small www.cite-espace.com/actualites-spatiales/%20 rover equipped with scientific instruments. The change4-panorama-lune-2019/ Earth-Moon journey should take around 40 days. This very ambitious mission for ISRO will mark the The European Space Agency (ESA) intends to first Moon landing by India, although the country contribute scientifically and technologically to previously «touched» renewed Moon exploration. the Moon with Chandrayaan-1 in 2008. It will present several projects to this end at the meeting of the Ministers of its Member States in late SpaceIL: A Private Operator Bound for the Moon 2019. The Israeli initiative is the first privately funded Moon mission with a small 585 kg lander named France and China on the Moon in 2023-2024. Beresheet. The landing failed very close to its target CNES has reached an agreement to have French on Thursday 11 April 2019. Despite this failure, experiments incorporated into the Chinese Moon Beresheet is the closest any private craft has come lander Chang’e-6. to the Moon. www.cite-espace.com/actualites-spatiales/chine- www.spaceil.com france-lune-2019/ www.cite-espace.com/actualites-spatiales/ beresheet-2019/ A Space Station around the Moon (known as LOP-G) built thanks to the cooperation of Chang’e-5: Mission to Bring Back Moon Samples several agencies. The European Space Agency (ESA) (scheduled for late 2019). is considering participating with Canada, Japan The Chinese Space Agency CNSA intends to take and Russia on this NASA initiative, particularly by Moon soil samples to bring back to Earth completely providing some modules which are currently being automatically. A good deal heavier at take-off than researched by manufacturers Airbus Defence and Chang’e-4, Chang’e-5 requires a more powerful Space and Thales Alenia Space. launcher, the CZ-5. After a failure in July 2017, it www.cite-espace.com/actualites-spatiales/lune- has to successfully return to flying this summer retour-gateway/ (possibly delayed) to qualify for Chang’e-5. ESA is going to Equip its Astronauts Centre (EAC, Cologne) with a Moon Training Facility The European Space Agency (ESA) has been regularly conducting training and testing related to Moon missions for several years. To follow these space stories check www.cite-espace.com/actualites-spatiales/ the Moon File which is continually marches-lunaires-esa/ www.esa.int/About_Us/EAC/Luna_facility_brings_ updated: www.cite-espace.com/ Moon_to_Earth dossiers/2019-annee-lune. And on twitter @CiteEspace CONTENTS
P. 4 2019: MOON YEAR AT A GLANCE! A Rich Programme for a Special Year
P. 6 1. EXHIBITION «MOON EPISODE II.» Experiments to Head off to Explore the Moon and Find Out About Current Projects. • The Challenges of the Apollo Missions. • «MOON EPISODE II»: Mankind’s Return to the Moon • Entertaining Rendezvous to Carry Out Lunar Experiments with your Team: the Rendezvous Moon Events. P. 10 2. ABOUT THE «MOON EPISODE II»EXHIBITION. • Moon Party on Sunday 21 July: An Exceptional Anniversary Event. • A Life-Size Apollo Lunar Module. • New Imax® Film, «Apollo 11, First Steps Edition.»
3. CONTINUE THE LUNAR DISCOVERIES THROUGH THE P. 12 PERMANENT EXHIBITIONS.
P. 14 4. A RICH AND ECLECTIC PROGRAMME. P. 16 CONTACTS.
3 2019: MOON YEAR AT A A PARTICULARLY RICH SPACE NEWS GLANCE! ITEM A RICH PROGRAMME FOR A SPECIAL YEAR. Cité de In 2019 our natural satellite is again the focus of the l’espace Proposes Discovering the Moon, Re-Living Past news with several ongoing Exploits and Taking on the Current Challenges of a Return and forthcoming Moon missions, featuring, along to our Natural Satellite. with the United States, new stakeholders such as China, In 2019, Cité de l’espace celebrates the 50th anniversary of Mankind’s India, Israel and Europe. Cité first steps on the Moon and demonstrates the vitality of current Moon de l’espace will reflect this research with several space events to experience this year and will raise Moon space news with the public awareness about the forthcoming return to the Moon. Chinese Chang’e-4 and 5, the Israeli Beresheet, the Indian Chandrayaan 2 Cité de l’espace is opening a grand temporary exhibition. missions and the forthcoming «Moon, Episode II,» and has organised a wide programme of events about European and American our natural satellite. projects. «MOON, EPISODE II»: AN ORIGINAL NEW EXHIBITION FROM SATURDAY 20 APRIL 2019 50 years after first setting foot on the Moon, on 21 July 1969, plans for Mankind’s return to the famous celestial body are taking shape. With its exhibition «MOON, EPISODE II,» Cité de l’espace invites you to prepare for these new challenges. All aboard for a Moon voyage made in Cité de l’espace. Relive the exploit of Apollo 11 and the first steps of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the Moon thanks to a retrospective which reveals the key moments of this world event and the incredible challenges solved by NASA’s teams 50 years ago. The core of the exhibition raises public awareness about the Moon environment, this celestial body which is at once so beautiful and so hostile, and the current challenges to be met to enable sustainable human settlement. Sensory experiences and surprising challenges are on the agenda. Exceptional: FROM 21 JULY 2019, A LIFE-SIZE APOLLO LM (LUNAR MODULE) WILL BE ON DISPLAY IN CITÉ DE L’ESPACE GARDENS.
Sunday 21 July 2019: MOON PARTY: A 50TH ANNIVERSARY EVENT FOR MANKIND’S FIRST STEPS ON THE MOON AND A PRESENTATION, THROUGH A PLATFORM OF GUESTS, OF THE FUTURE OF MOON EXPLORATION.
4 The New IMAX® Film, AT CITE DE «Apollo 11, First L’ESPACE, FROM Steps Edition.» JUNE 2019
This film takes a fresh look at the famous Apollo 11 mission using unpublished archive images to see for the first time on the giant screen. Director Friday 7 June Todd Miller shares this 10th Children’s Scientific Congress «Your School on incredible scientific and human epic with the public, delivering the Moon.» the atmosphere of the final preparations for take-off, of Friday 12 and Saturday 13 July from 6:30 to midnight mankind’s first steps on the Moon Observation «On the Moon Again» Moon and the return from this famous mission. This immersive Place du Capitole and Observatoire de Jolimont in experience offers a new look Toulouse. at one of mankind’s greatest achievements: Man on the Friday 2 August 2019 from 7 p.m. to Midnight Moon. From June 2019. The Night of the Stars, Moon Special. From Stone to Star!
Further Information: A RICH AND VARIED See the Programme PROGRAMME OF Pages 14 and 15 ENCOUNTERS, FILMS, CONFERENCES, MEETINGS AND EVENTS ON THE THEME OF THE MOON Throughout the year, Cité de l’espace offers an original eclectic programme to enable everyone to see the Moon in a new light, with many partners: CNES, OMP, IRAP, ESA, Association des Amis de la Cité de l’espace, Académie de l’air et de l’espace, Cinémathèque de Toulouse etc. Main events below and complete schedule can be found at www.cite-espace.com.
5 THE EXHIBITION «MOON, EPISODE II»: EXPERIMENTS TO HEAD OFF TO EXPLORE THE MOON AND FIND OUT ABOUT CURRENT PROJECTS. From 20 April 2019 to the end of 2020, Cité de l’espace presents the exhibition «Moon, Episode II,» an immersive journey to explore our natural satellite. The objective: enabling the public to re-live the past achievements of the Apollo missions and, above all, better understand the current challenges of returning to the Moon.
Presented on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary Year of Mankind’s first steps on the Moon, on 21 July 1969, this exhibition is introduced by the story of the incredible exploit of Apollo missions and the incredible challenges met by NASA’s teams. The core of the «Moon, EPISODE II» exhibition introduces the public to the current and future issues of returning to the Moon, this time not for a Moon mission but for a gradual settlement. The exhibition familiarises the public with the Moon environment and the challenges to be met to enable sustainable human settlement. The public is sensitised to this celestial body, at once so beautiful and so hostile, With this new iconic exhibition, Cité de via an immersive, sensory, l’espace gets the public all aboard, all the way surprising trail, studded to the Moon. with experiments. Ready? Through a trail, punctuated by sensory experiences, Cité de l’espace promises a vivid and active introduction for any audience of past achievements and challenges to come. The gamble is ambitious: 50 years after Apollo 11’s exploit, are we ready to meet the challenge of imagining Mankind’s return to our natural satellite?
6 THE CHALLENGES OF THE APOLLO MISSIONS. Who were these Men and Women Possessed by Conquering the Moon? What was their Gamble, their Programme? What was their Balance Sheet? These are the Questions Answered by the First Stage of the Exhibition.
Cité de l’espace offers, in a few stages and key items of information, the chance to relive this world-wide event. Between anecdotes and memories, the trail reveals the highlights of the event, which was watched by the entire world. This contextualisation invites the public to explore the six Apollo missions NASA initiated between 1969 and 1972. A total of 12 astronauts are highlighted for their scientific and human qualities. What would this crazy bet have been without the involvement of ambitious Apollo Mission Presentation © Manuel Huynh engineers and scientists? 50 years ago, with the technical means of the time and a Cold War political context, everything had to be invented. While the great Soviet advances opened the road to the unimaginable, it was the general mobilisation of Andy entire nation and President Kennedy’s confidence in The Apollo Missions innovation that enabled the Americans to walk on the Moon for the first time. presentation allows the How long have we spent on the Moon? What were the distances travelled, the samples brought back? public to re-play the What did we leave there? Visitors walk around, familiarising key scenes of the Apollo themselves with this great adventure, particularly through missions and understand the the life-size Apollo 11 Lunar Module cockpit (photo below), photos of the time, etc. issues of these missions.
As part of its exhibition, Cité de l’espace has a life-size replica of the controls of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module.
It was at the controls of this craft that Neil Armstrong (on the left) and Buzz Aldrin (on the right) landed on the Moon on 20 July 1969, completing a historic exploit. Limitations of space and visibility meant that the two Cockpit of Cité de l’espace Apollo LM, astronauts flew standing up! The triangular-shaped windows are tilted photo © Arnaud CARON to make it easier to see the Moon’s surface during the final approach phase. This careful life-size reconstruction shows visitors the core of the only vessel to date which carried humans to another world apart from Earth. 7 «MOON, EPISODE II»: MANKIND’S RETURN TO THE MOON. Return to the Moon? What a Captivating Idea. And What If the Process is Already Ongoing? In more than 600 M2 of a set and panorama of the lunar environment where various futuristic «made in Cité de l’espace» living quarters have sprung up, visitors follow an intuitive trail to explore the challenges to be met to live and survive on the Moon. Visitors are invited to cross the Moon’s surface and familiarise themselves with the features and constraints of this hostile world. They are also invited to visit the suggestions of Moon living quarters and vehicles to imagine what an astronaut’s daily life might look like on the Moon.
Living and Surviving on a Daily Basis Visitors project themselves here into daily life on the Moon, through practical and familiar experiences and interactions: How to communicate with Earth? What would food on the Moon be? Does the Moon’s low gravity have implications for our daily actions? How would our lives change? So many questions and discoveries to better understand how women and men could adapt to the particularities of the Moon’s environment. Astronaut Eugene Cernan Apollo Mission 17 © NASA Go Even Further? In a room for an all-new show, visitors meet a key Use Local Resources witness of the Apollo epic: astronaut and Moon On board a Moon Rover, visitors then travel to walker, Charlie Duke (Apollo 16). He is the tenth a scientific research site to meet astronauts man to have walked on the surface of the Moon. He working closely with robots. They can then go shares some memories of this unique moment with inside a living space and find that features of visitors and passes on a strong motivating message the Moon’s environment could be used to help to younger generations: we have to go back there! set up a base on the Moon. The public can find out how to build protected accommodation thanks to Moon dust, known as regolith. How can we have constant energy, thanks to permanently sunlit areas located at the lunar poles?
Charlie Duke, Apollo 16 Mission astronaut, © NASA
Charlie Duke Shares the Memories of a Moon Walker with You. Rover ©Olivier Gabriel legrais Ki studios 8 ENTERTAINING RENDEZVOUS TO CARRY OUT LUNAR EXPERIMENTS WITH YOUR TEAM: the «Rendezvous Moon» Events. At the heart of the «Moon Episode II» exhibition, two 25-minute events are offered every day. They are participatory laboratories, to experience with friends or family, from 7 years of age. They bring together 8 teams of 5 people, or 40 people in total per session, who simultaneously carry out experiments to understand the main features of the Earth’s natural satellite and the essential conditions and limitations of a stay on the Moon. The «Vacuum of Space» and «Apollo Missions» presentations complement this thematic experiential Moon feature by offering an opportunity to discover the effects of the vacuum of space and to relive Moon anecdotes and understand the lightness of Moonwalking.
2 «Rendezvous Moon»
Presentations Animation « Rendez-vous Lune » : expériences lunaires pour tous Try Out the Original Features of a Stay on the Moon with your Team: in a Moon Living Space or outside, by night and day. This presentation offers visitors the chance to prepare for a stay on the Moon. Each team can then try out and compare what is Make Simple Tools to Solve identical and what is different between Earth and the Moon: Some Astronomical Puzzles the weight of objects, the speed at which they fall to the ground, the surrounding landscape, which equipment is essential or about the Moon/ Earth/ the unnecessary for walking and working outside the living space. Sun An original way to rediscover the stories of the Apollo missions, understand in a fun way and explore the special features of this This rendezvous offers visitors the other world: the Moon. Teams will experience many sensory opportunity, by working with daily experiences: kit themselves out to leave the living space, find out objects, to conduct Earth/Moon about the colour of the sky and the surface on the Moon, pick up experiments and an introduction to lunar a Moon rock like an Apollo astronaut ... A world of differences to geometry. Each team can easily solve feel on a celestial body so close to us. some astronomical puzzles: diameter of the Earth compared to that of the Moon, distance between Earth and the Moon, draw their trajectories around the Sun etc… An unexpected way of travelling to the Moon, learning while having fun PARTNERS OF and changing your point of view about the Moon. Everyone experiments and THE «MOON, EPISODE II» EXHIBITION has an introduction to the Earth/Moon/ Sun relationships and understands by experience the phenomenon of eclipses An exhibition produced with the support of: and discovers how to measure the • ESA, CNES, OMP, IRAP distance between Earth and Moon ... And in partnership with • ESSP, ENEDIS, ARIANEGROUP
9 About the «MOON EPISODE II» Exhibition: MOON PARTY : on 21 July 2019 - An exceptional anniversary event. Sunday 21 July 2019: from 1.30 p.m. to midnight Moon Party, a 50th anniversary event for Mankind’s first Steps on the Moon to Relive the Great Moments of the Apollo 11 Mission and Project into the Future.
On 21 July 1969, Neil Armstrong set foot on the surface of the Moon and marked the history of Mankind and space exploration forever. 50 years later, to celebrate this historic moment, Cité de l’espace has organised Moon Party, an event to relive the Apollo missions and to face the future. What is the future of space exploration in the 21st century? Will Mankind return to the Moon before Presented by Cité de l’espace, a panel of guests, the end of the century? What are the new issues of personalities from all walks of life (scientific, the «conquest» of space? artistic etc.) will talk about their participation in challenges or adventures which enabled them to Thanks to the exceptional presence of a life- surpass themselves, about their view of the exploit size Apollo Lunar Module (LM) in the gardens, an of the Apollo missions and the future of space Airstream (the vehicle which took the astronauts exploration. to the launch pad), a temporary exhibition «Moon, Episode II,» and a programme of experiments and On the occasion of anniversary day, Cité de l’espace events going on throughout the day, the public can will help visitors relive the magnificent adventure of immerse themselves in the Apollo exploit and re-live the Apollo missions and astronauts Neil Armstrong the thrills of the two historic moments of the Apollo and Buzz Aldrin. Fifty years after the deeds, the 11 mission: day of 21 July 2019 will enable the general public to understand the conditions of the journey to the the landing and the first steps of Neil Armstrong Moon and imagine 21st century space exploration and his travelling companion Buzz Aldrin. for themselves.
Free Entry to the Event, on Registration. www.cite-espace.com
10 About the A LIFE-SIZE APOLLO «MOON EPISODE II» LUNAR MODULE.
Exhibition: From 21 July and until the end of the «Moon, Episode II» exhibition late in 2020, Cité de l’espace will offer its visitors the chance to admire a life-size reproduction of the Apollo LM (Lunar Module), the vessel which enabled Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to land on the Moon on 20 July 1969. An astonishing encounter with the reality of the Apollo missions through exploring a legendary vessel. 7 m in height, the Apollo LM is surprisingly imposing in size and iconic lines which result from a design which was completely dictated by the limitations of the Moon missions. In all, 9 Apollo LMs successfully carried astronauts, including 6 times to the surface of our natural satellite (Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17), once around the Earth for tests (Apollo 9), once around the Moon for the final trial (Apollo 10) and as the crew’s emergency rescue accommodation on the Apollo 13 mission. Both through its design and history, the Apollo A life-size replica of the Apollo LM (or LM stands as a unique vessel, for it remains the only craft which has taken humans to a world Lunar Module) from the Apollo missions other than the Earth! will be on display in the gardens of Cité de l’espace from 21 July and throughout the exhibition «Moon, Episode II»!
New IMAX® Film, «Apollo 11, First Steps Edition»
This film takes a fresh look at the famous Apollo 11 mission using unpublished images and archives to see for the first time on the giant screen. Director Todd Miller shares this incredible scientific and human epic with the public, delivering the atmosphere of the final preparations for take-off, of mankind’s first steps on the Moon and the return from this famous mission.
11 CONTINUE THE LUNAR DISCOVERIES. THROUGH THE PERMANENT EXHIBITIONS. Cité de l’espace has many Moon objects on display in its permanent exhibitions and Moon experiments in its shows.
MOONWALK SPACESUIT This spacesuit is an identical replica of that worn by the last astronaut to walk on the Moon, Eugene Cernan of the Apollo 17 mission (December 1972).
A MOON ROCK BROUGHT BACK BY THE ASTRONAUTS OF THE APOLLO 15 MISSION Get up close with the inaccessible, imagine the travels of this rock and find out about its history. The Moon rock on display in the permanent exhibitions is a 163 gram basalt fragment, brought back from the Moon by the astronauts of the Apollo 15 mission (July 1971) and entrusted to Cité de l’espace by NASA. This Moon rock is priceless for its rarity.
12 THE MOON JEEP RIDE A device to operate which provides a virtual exploration of the lunar surface and terrain: to get to know the Moon.
MOON MAP
A mobile Moon globe enables scanning of the Moon’s terrain: its craters or its «seas» on the visible side and the dark side of the Moon. It is even possible to find out about the landing sites of the various Apollo missions on the Moon.
THE PLANETARIUM: NEW INTERACTIVE SPECTACLE «BEYOND THE STARS»
This new interactive spectacle enables a vivid exploration of the solar system and beyond and, on the way, a sequence shows us the Moon and the sites of the Apollo missions on the big hemispherical screen with an unparalleled image quality.
THE ASTRONOMER’S CUPOLA An observatory enables exploration of the sky in broad daylight via a real telescope as used by astronomers, accompanied by a presenter. When it is visible, the Moon reveals itself and a spectacular and unprecedented view is available to the public.
13 A RICH AND ECLECTIC PROGRAMME.
Tuesday 30 April at 6 p.m. Early June Conference: «Our Journey on the Lunar continent»* New IMAX® Film, «Apollo 11, First Steps Edition.» An overview of current Moon projects. Conference This film takes a fresh look at the famous Apollo 11 with Bernard Foing, astrophysicist ESA ESTEC, director mission using unpublished images and archives to see ILEWG international Moon group, IAA member, Professor for the first time on the giant screen. Director Todd at VU Amsterdam, ISU, ISAE. Miller shares this incredible scientific and human epic At Médiathèque José Cabanis in Toulouse. with the public, delivering the atmosphere of the final Free entry subject to availability. preparations for take-off, of mankind’s first steps on the Moon and the return from this famous mission. From Wednesday 15 to Friday 31 May Access with an entry ticket to Cité de l’espace Production of the first rockets: a painful historical context. Thursday 6 June at 8.30 p.m. . Exhibition «Immersed in the Hell of Dora, 9000 Special Conference: «Robots and Men, What Will Be the Future Destinies» of Planetary Exploration by 2061?» . Continuous screening of the documentary film, «The Round Table at Cité de l’espace, organised as part of Children of Buschdorf» France 2. the «Horizon 2061» Symposium . Conference - Wednesday 15 at 7 p.m.: «From which will take place at IRAP that week. Encounter Production of the First Rockets to the Development with scientists, a science historian, a sociologist from of Space Activities.» With Laurent Thiery, Scientific scientific organisations and projects, a neurologist- Director of the Research Programme on the Dora psychiatrist, an economist, presented by Michel Blanc, prisoners for La Coupole Saint-Omer (62), Claude Astrophysicist at IRAP. Favre, grand-daughter of a prisoner from Toulouse and At Cité de l’espace Jean-Claude Renou, former CNES engineer. An event Free Entry. Booking advised organised by Les Amis de la Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Déportation (Délégation 31) in partnership with Friday 7 June ONAC, La Coupole, Les Amis de la Cité de l’espace and 10th Children’s Scientific Congress «Your School on the 3ACNES. Moon» On Friday 17 May: Day for Academics For the 10th Edition of the Children’s Scientific At Cité de l’espace - for further information Congress, and as part of the school-college link www.cite-espace.com events tab. programme, 500 students in CM1, CM2 and P6 are tasked with imagining their «College on the Moon.» Tuesday 21 May After discovering the limitations of our satellite, they Inauguration of the «Moon, Episode II» Exhibition will have to find innovative solutions together for their with Apollo Mission Control Tour: welcoming 4 engineers new life as college students ... on the Moon! Carried out who worked in the control rooms of the Apollo missions. in collaboration with Toulouse Rectorate and the Federal At Cité de l’espace - reserved for press and guests. University of Toulouse, this project is intended to raise interest in science and build confidence in students by Tuesday 28 May at 6.30 p.m. giving them the floor. The Congress will also take place Conference «Chang’e or the Call of the Moon»* in the Puglia region, Italy. From myth to reality, the Chinese Moon Exploration At Cité de l’espace - Access reserved to partner school Programme. audiences and the press Conference with Ms. Linli Guo, Chief Engineer at China Academy of Space Technology (CAST), presented by Michel Blanc, Astrophysicist at IRAP. Organised in partnership with Académie de l’Air et de l’Espace and IRAP/OMP/CNRS as part of the Air and Space Cycle. At Cité de l’espace, free access to conference - booking advised.
* Space Rendezvous and the Air and Space Cycle. Organised in partnership with 3AF, CNES, L’Académie de l’Air et de l’Espace, Association des Amis de la Cité de l’espace and 3ACNES. 14 Friday 12 and Saturday 13 July from 6:30 to midnight Wednesday 2 October at 6.30 p.m. Moon Observation «On the Moon Again» Conference: «Space: Can Europe Reach for the Moon?»* Place du Capitole and the Jolimont Observatory in Toulouse A conference organised by Les Amis de la Cité de l’espace and Two grand observation evenings to explore the Moon using 3ACNES. a telescope and find out about its craters and the landing At Cité de l’espace - Free entry. Booking advised sites of the Apollo missions! An event sponsored in France by Hubert Reeves and Claudie Haignere supported by around 50 Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 October international scientists, including several Nobel Prize winners. Aerospace Festival «Des Etoiles et des Ailes (Of Stars and Further Information: www.onthemoonagain.org/homefr. Wings)» Friday 12 July: Observatoire de Jolimont - Toulouse A whole programme to discuss air and space over 2 days: Film Saturday 13 July: Place du Capitole - Toulouse Festival, Book Fair, conferences, simulators and introductory From 9 p.m. to midnight - Free Entry. workshops etc… With prestigious guests, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Concorde’s maiden flight and the Tuesday 16 July Apollo missions. A World Space Week Event. 50 Years since Apollo 11, 50 rockets fired in France at 2.32 p.m. At Cité de l’espace - Free entry. Planète Sciences Association celebrates the 50th anniversary of the launch of the Saturn 5 rocket which enabled mankind to land on the Moon, by organising 50 synchronised launches Wednesday 16 October at 8 p.m. from 50 sites in France. Come make and launch your own Edgar Allan Poe’s Amazing Scientific Intuitions rocket at Cité de l’espace, and celebrate the historic take-off Encounter and conference with Jean-Pierre Luminet, of the Apollo 11 mission! Astrophysicist, writer and poet as part of the Edgar Allan Poe At Cité de l’espace - On Presentation of the Entry Ticket cycle, accompanied by readings and a musician. In partnership with La Cave Poésie. Every Thursday (and the first 2 Tuesdays in August) from 18 Cité de l’espace - Free entry. Booking advised July to 22 August Moon themed Nocturnes Wednesday 13 November at 6.30 p.m. Cité de l’espace is open continuously from 10 a.m. to 11 Space Exploration: From the Moon to Mars? * p.m. with special events (sky observations by telescope, A round table organised by Les Amis de la Cité de l’espace in illuminations in the gardens, mapping). partnership with CNES and 3ACNES. At Cité de l’espace - Pay to access. At Cité de l’espace Free Entry. Booking advised Sunday 21 July from 1.30 p.m. to midnight Moon Party Anniversary day to find out about the magnificent adventure of the Apollo missions and astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin who walked on the Moon on 21 July 1969! A programme of events, films and exceptional guests to understand the challenges of the journey to the Moon and imagine for ourselves into 21st century space exploration. At Cité de l’espace - Free Entry by Registration Further Information www.cité-espace.com * Space Rendezvous and the Air and Space Friday 2 August 2019 from 7 p.m. to Midnight Cycle. Organised in partnership with 3AF, CNES, L’Académie de The Night of the Stars, Moon Special. l’Air et de l’Espace, Association des Amis de la Cité de l’espace and From Stone to Star! 3ACNES. An evening introduction to exploring the sky. Half a century ago, the Apollo missions astronauts collected the first extra-terrestrial stones on the Moon’s surface for analysis in sterile laboratories. In all, for the entire programme, more than 300 kilos of samples collected from six sites explored by twelve men including ... a single scientific geologist. Cité de l’espace has a Moon stone loaned by NASA as evidence of this theme, in partnership with the French Astronomy Association, Planète Sciences Occitanie and many regional stakeholders in Astronomy. At Cité de l’espace - Free entry. Wednesday 25 September at 8.30 p.m. COSMOS 1969 The soundtrack of the Apollo 11 mission in an immersive and metaphysical sensory odyssey. A concert show for aerial Further information and constantly performers, a suspended curve and six musicians and an immersive sound device. In partnership with Odyssud. updated Moon Programme information Odyssud Blagnac - Admission Fee www.cite-espace.com/evenements/2019- une-annee-dediee-a-la-lune/
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