(7.20) Touch a moon rock. Meet real astronauts. Saturday’s 80-brazier lighting has a theme: To the Moon and Beyond: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing with art, science, and exploration.
At Market Square from 5pm to 10pm — Apollo Legacy Rhode Island and Space Exploration.
- NASA astronaut Jeff Hoffman and NASA astronaut Woody Springs; autograph signing after, Robotics Opens to Public.
- Touch the Moon in Market Square opens to the public, along with Photographs from the NASA Archives of space exploration
- Looking Glass 3D displays of galaxy clusters
- RI Computer Museum
- RISD Mars Rover
- RISD Space suit design
- Rhode Island model rocket association display
- Model of the Apollo 11 Command Module constructed by students at Warwick Area Career Technical Center
At Washington Street Bridge from 6pm to 10pm.
- “Dr. Samuel Wagstaff’s Eminent Emporium of Photography”- Come and have your portrait taken sitting on a classic Crescent Moon, a feature in many Victorian photo parlors.
- Dassault education pods on the visualization of scientific data
- First Robotics Showcase of robots designed and built by students from 5th grade through high school.
- RI Museum of Science and Art science learning demonstrations
Both astronauts will be giving talks at the RISD Auditorium. The Festival Ballet will perform on the Basin Stage. And check out the exhibitions at the RISD Illustration Studies Building Gallery.
Sunset 8:16pm, Saturday, July 20, WaterFire, downtown