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Topic:	Super Bowl 50: Space-themed commercials

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Your Reply: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ronpur: [B]And Scott is on The Late Show![/B][/QUOTE]
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Cozmosis22

Thank you very much for posting that great little clip. As a car guy and a space buff must say it brought a tear to my eye.

GoesTo11

Awesome

Per AdWeek Magazine's website, the spot will run during the game's first quarter.

Ronpur

That is perfect in so many ways!

Chariot412

Suddenly, I want an Audi.

randy

I do too.

Skythings

Somehow I was compelled to hug an aging astronaut.

sev8n

Wondering, were the missing legs on the LM model meant to be symbolic?

GoesTo11

quote:
Originally posted by sev8n:
Wondering, were the missing legs on the LM model meant to be symbolic?

Don't know about that... but I've watched this way too many times and just now noticed the Code 3/TMC Apollo CM on the "Commander's" desk.

GACspaceguy

How about the Mercury spacecraft (it looks like one of those plastic banks) at the base of the lamp?

Robert Pearlman

Scott Kelly and Tim Kopra appeared on CBS's pre-game show from aboard the space station (screen cap via Jim Banke on Facebook):

Buel

Unbelievable!! I nearly shed a tear too.

(Dave Scott, anybody?)

Robert Pearlman

Scott Kelly on the space station:

Hosted Super Bowl party on space station, but no one showed up. I would have served nachos!
Got to see the Super Bowl in person after all! But at 17,500MPH, it didn't last long.

Robert Pearlman

Jeep's ad included a shot of an astronaut. Rick Mastracchio confirmed it was Mike Hopkins:

Great shot of @AstroIllini in Super Bowl car ad with reflection of me in his visor.

Ronpur

And Scott is on The Late Show!

Buel

It would seem that Audi's connection to Apollo and the Moon is not limited to that brilliant advert.

Kevmac

One website says MSRP is $116,000. Guess I'll keep my 89 Mazda RX-7 and keep pretending it's a rocket.

Would have been cool if they had tweaked the opening a little and cast a real Apollo astronaut as the main character. Wonder if they invited anyone.

Robert Pearlman

Audi launched its "Why the Moon Matters" campaign, which included this commercial, by having Gene Cernan on stage at the North American Auto Show in Detroit in January, as pictured in our article.

(Also mentioned was the company's Google Lunar XPrize involvement, as Craig [Buel] linked to above.)

Robert Pearlman

quote:
Originally posted by Ronpur:
And Scott is on The Late Show!

And here's that clip (starts at about 4:15):

Buel

quote:
Originally posted by Kevmac:
Would have been cool if they had tweaked the opening a little and cast a real Apollo astronaut as the main character. Wonder if they invited anyone.

Now THAT would have made it perfect! Who would you have preferred it to have been? For me, Charlie Duke.

Robert Pearlman

quote:
Originally posted by Kevmac:
Would have been cool if they had tweaked the opening a little and cast a real Apollo astronaut as the main character.

Buzz Aldrin cited on Twitter today the results of the Audi ad on his own identity, according to Google Trends:

+350% spike in searches for @TheRealBuzz (Buzz Aldrin) since the @Audi commercial #SB50

Says Aldrin:

Too bad @Audi didn't ask me to do that #SB50 commercial but I am happy people thought to look me up.

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