Bayside library over the moon with film fest

A man first walked on the moon on July 20, 1969. Photo via NASA.

By Victoria Merlino

Blast off this summer with the Queens Public Library’s Bayside branch, which will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the moon landing with a two-month-long space film fest. 

NASA first put a man on the moon on July 20, 1969, capping a roughly decade-long push for greater space exploration and a Cold War race against Russia to make the fateful lunar mission.

Movies in the Bayside’s library’s docket pay homage to the sense of adventure of the Space Age, centering around space travel and exploration of the unknown. Genres will include everything from documentary to science fiction to superhero films,. Take an out-of-this-world trip with the beloved Pixar film “WALL-E” or soar with one of Marvel’s newest entries, “Captain Marvel.”

The full schedule is as follows:

7/6: "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968, G)

7/13: "Captain Marvel" (2019, PG-13);

7/20: "Apollo 11" (2019, G)

7/27: "First Man" (2018, PG-13)

8/3: "Roving Mars" (2006, G) and "Hubble 3D" (2010, G)

8/10: "The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part" (2019, PG)

8/17: "WALL-E" (2008, G)

8/24: "Interstellar" (2014, PG-13)

The library is located at 214-20 Northern Blvd.