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Catch a Space Movie, and the Sunset, at the Intrepid
The former aircraft carrier now docked in the Hudson River will host the finale of its free summer movie series on Friday.
Good morning. It’s Friday. Today, and on Fridays through the summer, we’ll focus on things to do in New York over the weekend.
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In the science fiction disaster film “Moonfall,” a disgraced astronaut, played by Patrick Wilson, tries to save Earth from the threat of a collision with the moon.
Now imagine watching that quest on the flight deck of a decommissioned aircraft carrier floating in the Hudson River, at sunset, near a NASA prototype orbiter that paved the way for the space shuttle program, surrounded by 27 planes and helicopters that flew in conflicts including World War II and the Vietnam War.
“It’s definitely an experience,” said Elysia Segal, the producer of public programs at the Intrepid Museum, which since 1982 has been inviting people to get up close and personal with vehicles like the world’s first space shuttle, a supersonic spy plane and a nuclear submarine.
For more than 15 years, the museum, on the West Side of Manhattan, has welcomed about 1,000 people on Friday nights for its free sunset summer movie series. The finale of this year’s lineup will be a screening of “Moonfall,” which is set to begin at sunset tonight — around 8 p.m., Segal said.
But moviegoers might want to arrive earlier. The museum’s “Apollo: When We Went to the Moon” exhibition, which chronicles the human spaceflight program conducted by NASA in the 1960s and ’70s, is in its final weeks. The museum will offer free admission from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., with the Apollo show closing at 8 p.m.
