As the nationwide effort to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing kicks off, the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. has unveiled plans to project a representation of a Saturn V rocket onto the Washington Monument. 

The projection is designed by 59 Productions, an international team made up of artists, architects, and technologists that has brought multi-media events to the Guggenheim Bilbao museum and Edinburgh Castle, among other notable structures. 

The projection in Washington, D.C. will take place for five nights starting on July 16th, culminating with a series of multi-media celebrations that will "unfold on the face of the Washington Monument" while being accompanied by "supporting screens, including a 40-foot-wide recreation of the famous Kennedy Space Center countdown clock," according to the museum.

On July 19th, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) launch a live broadcast celebrating the moon landing from the recently-restored Apollo mission control room at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. The Johnson Space Center was designed in 1962 by Charles Luckman Associates, the designers behind Penn Station in New York and the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, among other notable projects.

A series of exhibitions are taking place around the country in conjunction with the celebrations, including Be the Astronaut / Apollo 50th at the National Automobile Museum in Reno, Nevada, Year of Apollo: The Moon and Beyond at Bell Museum in St. Paul, Minnesota, Media, the Moon, & Beyond at the Intrepid Museum in New York City, among many others.