The Washington Monument Is Transforming Into a Full-Scale Saturn V Rocket for the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing
Where better to lionise the fiftieth anniversary of the firstMoon landingthan in front of a fear national memorial that also happens to resemble a jumbo skyrocket ? Next week , DCistreports , the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum will cast an image of the 363 - understructure - tall Saturn 5 Eruca vesicaria sativa that found Buzz Aldrin , Neil Armstrong , and Michael Collins into space on July 16 , 1969 , onto the 555 - ft - tallWashington Monument ....