The moon landing on july 20th 1969 fulfilled a dream of humankind the pictures went around the world or. People. Its become film history and part of pop culture. Was. The moon and other celestial bodies have always captured the imagination why does outer space fascinate us so and what is it about the moon landing that continues to hold our attention a cosmic trip through arts film and music. Its. A small step a giant for the. It was the 1st time a human had set foot on the moon. Mankind had left a footprint in space. These images are reflected in our collective memory. It was far more than a scientific expedition it was the fulfillment of an age old dream of mankind an exhibition project examines the way artists have approached it high heels on the moon sue me for these pointed reference to the under representation of women in space flight this installation carries a touch of the poet earths moon earth in 2007 scottish artist katie benner isnt transmitted beethovens moonlight sonata in morse code to the moon which bounced it back to the earth. Of the we hear a piece thats been on the island and acquired slight variations from the original because on the way the sound was swallowed by a crater oh got lost. Or topics. On the modified long ago just. Lost in space but fortunately this time it was only musical notes. Before the landing artists regarded the moon above all is a mystery a celestial body an embodiment of fears and desires especially for surrealists lecturing me about that. Within just a few years the movie would symbolize very different fears and desires the space race was on. On who will win the soviets or the americans it was the dawn of the space in which many artists took a critical perspective on. Others who were fascinated by the technology among them british pop artist richard hamilton. Doubtless fog he actually sense that this moon landing this spice rice program would very noticeably affect our daily lives inside the concept of streamlining in design for instance or lightweight materials and the miniature as ation of technology. 969 as soon as they landed the americans planted their flag on the moon a gesture that inspired pop artist and you all as late as 1987 just before his death. It was billed as a mission for all mankind that heralded in a new era the euphoria spread to countries that had recently thrown off the yoke of colonialism spaceflights objects on stamps cutter out here used them in his painting. British nigerian artist chink a shiny body suggests a space walk in wax print suits its a multifaceted work centered on themes of colonialism it seems to be asking why things are a bit more colorful up there in more ways than one. Life started because it shot many segments of society the black and asian communities all women have never been to the moon the job press called for men of a certain age and this whip refers to that fact in a very ironic why ornish off the top thought. To know that zambia had a Space Program of its own in the early 1960 s. Lack of funding may have. Build its tomb but the vision is retained its explosive Political Force to the present day. The most famous image in the exhibition is into an artwork on december 24th 1968 apollo 8 astronaut William Anders made the earth rise photo revealing a shining fragile world. The sun the side that was at the time of the vietnam war of terrible conflicts and the 1st environmental problems and of the Hippie Movement that expressed the desire for alternatives and we live on a planet on which we somehow have to get along and put an end to all the nationalist conflicts on to much less moms on which is not so what is the shift to. The moon landing changed our view of our blue planet after decades of manned space travel no other planet has been found where humankind could live. The moon news no longer an object of fear and designer. Its the earth itself. A big orchestra and plenty of spectacle to celebrate the half century anniversary of the moon landing. With oscar winning soundtrack composer hans zimmer and steve by one of the worlds best guitarists. Then brian may astrophysicist and queens lead guitarist. The concert spectacle opened the start of this festival we met the man who started it all. All these guys are great. My heroes are so i could never never imagine that one day im going to put together a festival to bring all these heroes of my childhood of my get together and i feel a part of the festivities that im paying tribute to all of that. Heroic israelian here next to brian may is a professor of astrophysics native to armenia he launched the stormers festival in 2011 on the Canary Islands bringing artists together with veteran astronauts and scientists and not just any scientists but such big names as Stephen Hawking. I think the main goal of star misses i think his spirit and this is thats why this should create a festival over people out inspired and the one of the race to inspire them is actually to bring these guys together to have buzz aldrin on stage with brian may to let people see real heroes and treat them like stars. The 5th edition of the festival was held in Zurich Switzerland the idea was to bring star most closer to the center of europe and pay tribute to Swiss AerospaceResearch Like the solar wind composition experiment developed in bam it was the only non american experiment aboard apollo 11. On the 50th anniversary of the 1st moon landing everything at star misses about the moon and the u. S. Apollo missions of the 1960 s. And seventys americas goal was to put a human on the moon before the soviet union did. But what is the moons attraction besides the purely physical. The fascination of one is because you can see every guy above the beach is there and he makes a tree. Look at that 1st of all its beautiful. Just being. On the move you do is fall in love with it its our. Purpose build space station. I think it has played a very special role and he still managed to create a making people treat right song support and feeling part of the universe. Astronauts have always credited Science Fiction writers like jules verne with sparking their imaginations and in turn the achievements of spaceflight had inspired art. Some astronauts have become artists in their own right like nicole stott who painted watercolors in space not an easy task. The water behaves a little bit differently in microgravity than it does down here so i have little floating balls of water that i would use to dip my brush into and i painted a painting based on a picture of probably one of the most beautiful things i saw which was this little chain of islands on the northern coast of venezuela called us rochas and to me i remember looking out the window at it and it looked like somebody had already like theyd taken a big paintbrush and painted this wave on the ocean i think our planet is art i started to like looking at earth with this idea of art appreciation you see the universe and its all its orderliness and all its beauty and this thing you how did this just happen by accident you do it this is the designer i call it god. Charles dupes perspective on many things has changed he was 36 years old when he piloted apollo 16 making him the youngest man ever to walk on the moon he spent a total of some 20 hours there is a lympics his attempt to jump as high as possible almost cost him his life back dont ever do anything in space that you had practiced all over the many apollo was a. And had been sure in a Technical Mission that i had a job to do and i was focused on my own i cant say get more come back i would like to live on the moon forever but certainly stay 2 more hours would have been great they said come on. Back home he was welcomed with accolades but also skepticism even now some conspiracy theorists claim the moon landings were staged on earth were they faked the evidence is overwhelming that we landed on the moon we have. Probably 300 kilos of moon rocks that are totally different to earth rocks the russians knew we went to the moon we want to race with them they track us we landed they never said it was a lie they they knew they were on the move and we did it 9 terms we went to the moon if you go to fake so we do it once and shut up. Important to remember is that the Apollo Missions had a Major Political motivation they were expensive risky and always controversial their success gave us modern day heroes though some may see them as American Space cowboys the star mistrust of all is yet another tribute to their admirable teamwork and contributions to science and technology and to news. Among them is brian eno he was awarded the Stephen Hawking medal at the festival for the release of his legendary 1983 apollo album. In addition researchers have even named an asteroid after him. Somewhere out there a little brian eno is tumbling through space who else can say that about themselves. We met the english musician at the festival for tea and a chat. For. Toothpaste flavored to. You know how do you remember the moon landing off 969 what did you do back then. I had just left school and i was living in love the next door to my old painting professor we sat in the kitchen looking at his Little Television and it was getting evening and there was a full moon in the sky. Thats actually where they are now those people are there and it was an incredible moment with everything contracting into this moment in time and of course i realize that was a very historic point in the history of the human race so although the Apollo Missions were you know a military technological industrial. Thing they were also it was a piece of art it was this idea. Hey we could do this we could make this happen how did it inspire you as an as an artist as a musician i didnt suddenly go and start making space music but i was already working with electronics and electronic instruments then the kinds of sounds that they produced were unearthly i kept finding myself thinking about the universe instead of the earth thinking about you know galaxies and. The emptiness of space for example and i started to think actually most of the universe of silence the only place that there is any. Actual noise is on earth you need an atmosphere for there to be noise so we are the noise in the universe as far as we know we dont know any other source of noise. Its us just us. But when you say in space the silence how difficult is it then to transform that into music when you say you put a very large reverberation on the side and you think god that sab so spacey you know there have been all these devices in the history of music called space echo and Space Chamber but of course it is space theres no echo. Theres no sound so so weve created a human fantasy about what space is like and all that we know is that its very big. I started to think that composing making music i should say was such an unusually human function so we do this thing called making music for quite mysterious reasons i think and i think one of the reasons is its a way of saying i am here. Mankind. To explore space. Far away. From the circumstances of the moon landing was mostly a giant leap for mankind it was also reflected in Popular Culture shock for example in david bowie song space odyssey its about an astronaut who ends up drifting in space. Mountain shoals allegedly found you flip it gray live. And let live learn to love you as you let the song was released days before the start of the apollo 11 mission but the b. B. C. Refused to play it until the astronauts had returned safely to worst drug understand to lose the job of you close to a lull to what it always inspiration for the song didnt come from the Apollo Mission from a Science Fiction film. Stanley kubricks 2001 a space odyssey. Advertisements for the film called it the ultimate trip and always good probably the great. I it was the light 960 s. After all and many young people were experimenting with psychoactive drugs. And all this mind 169. 00 the woodstock festival took place in the us a key event in the history of popular music and american counterculture. Playing. Always songs space oddity reached the top 5 on the good cake charts and went. Its released in 1975 it went to number one the song has been covered by many artists. Even in space. Egypt. In 2013 the International Space station commander Chris Hadfield sang a version of the song at the end of his mission hatfield changed the lyrics slightly so that major tom returned to earth safe and sound to. You. Tom what. Do you call 11 mission required a massive effort an estimated 400000 people took part in developing the technology of the moon landing had a huge influence on the movies nasa itself delivered spectacular pictures in july 969 shortly before takeoff it was perhaps the greatest human adventure of all time and would be covered on live t. V. Like the one you feel as far as responsibility. Thats relatively difficult to answer. A new documentary on apollo 11 features digitally restored footage from nasa says. Some of the video has never been seen before. You have to kind of would all down one of the key moments what were the moments of humanity that out there what were the things that stood out what really got me was the emotion on their faces you could see the weight of what they were about to do. The film celebrates the heroes of this historic mission. The world of cinema has always been fascinated with the moon french directors. Yes imagine the moon landing in this film from 1000 to. The film was a huge success around the world it brought viewers a step closer to the heavens the earths only satellite a place filled with mystery and unknown dangers where dreams of adventure could turn into nightmares. In 1929 german director fritz lang portrayed the darker side of a moon mission in this silent film it was considered one of the 1st reasonably accurate Science Fiction movies. Moon films had been popular since the early days of cinema and still are seen. A new film portrays the triumphs and the tragedies in the life of Neil Armstrong in 1962 his daughter karen died of a brain tumor when she was just 2 years old. Armstrong was devastated by the loss of his daughter. The film includes a scene in which armstrong 7 years later stands in silence on the edge of the moon crater in the film he casts a bracelet with his daughters name on it into the crater. This was a man who i think was forged for a failure and for loss he was not sort of you know this kind of born icon he was not he was not necessarily the sort of all American Hero from the outside it was a human being it was vulnerable human mistakes. Later after the astronauts have returned to earth armstrong is shown at the core and 100 facility the moon mission seems to have changed him and not for the better hes more serious and remote. Many other astronauts behave the same way after their missions. Ready. The 2011 us canadian film apollo 18 is a fictionalized account of a moon flight that never actually took place. Apollo 18 was cancelled by nasa in 1970 but in the film the astronauts are sent to the moon i Top Secret Mission it ends in disaster when the astronauts are attacked by extra terrestrials left alone in space far away from their home planets they are the most Lonely People imagine. Theyll will not only really please. The soviet union was justifiably proud of its Space Program a 27000 russian film tells the story of cars were not alex a layoff the 1st man to walk in space lay on nov left his orbiting capsule on march 18th 1965 and spent 12 minutes floating around outside. By the time he returned to earth soviet space officials had decided that leon of was to be part of moscows 1st Lunar Mission but the project was later cancelled. Was the moon landing faked a 2002 french mockumentary alleges that renowned director Stanley Kubrick shot the scenes at a studio acting under orders from the cia the film claims that the idea for faking the landing originally came from president nixon. They became very aware how important the visual spectacle effect is going to be had for a 3rd didnt take it very seriously and that would fold mode. That it could go in order before but then one of the president ial advisers i dont know general Alexander Haig or donald rumsfeld. Said hesitantly. Why do we feel the 1st steps on the moon in a studio and then if we fail we can always show those pictures to a public. The film is best understood as satire as opposed to a traditional factual documentary but the production values quite good so it needs seem convincing to some. The moon and its never ending magic continues to fascinate and the witches song here on earth. 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