posted 07-02-2019 07:53 PM               

NASA's Giant Leaps: Past and Future

On July 19, 2019, NASA's Giant Leaps: Past and Future will air 1 to 3 p.m. EDT on NASA TV and the agency's website, and will be simulcast on the Discovery Science Channel. Hosted from the agency's Kennedy Space Center, the show will salute the heroes of Apollo and discuss the agency's future plans, with segments at:

• The National Mall in Washington
  
• NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, including the newly restored Apollo Mission Control Operations Room and Space Center Houston, Johnson's official visitors center
  
• The U.S. Space & Rocket Center near NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama
  
• Neil Armstrong's hometown of Wapakoneta, Ohio
  
• The Apollo 11 command module on display at the Museum of Flight in Seattle

The show also will feature slices of Americana at other anniversary celebrations around the country.

At 3 p.m., NASA TV will air a special program, STEM Forward to the Moon, which will feature kids participating in Moon landing simulations at four partner museums across the nation:

• Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, Kansas
  
• Saint Louis Science Center in St. Louis
  
• Columbia Memorial Space Center in Downey, California
  
• Arizona Science Center in Phoenix

NASA also will bring Apollo 50th anniversary participants together to take part in a virtual engineering design challenge on social media. Along with each of its museum partners, NASA invites the public to help build a component of NASA's return to the Moon using simple household materials.