Tom Hanks brings love of space to new immersive London show
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[December 06, 2023]
By Marie-Louise Gumuchian
LONDON (Reuters) - Archive footage of space rockets taking off beam
across giant walls in a new immersive show in London, as Hollywood actor
Tom Hanks narrates the story of human voyages to the moon.
"The Moonwalkers: A Journey With Tom Hanks" looks at the first moon
landings of the Apollo missions from 1969 to 1972 and their successor,
NASA's human spaceflight program, Artemis.
The next mission - the Artemis II lunar flyby - is planned for next year
and interviews with the four-member team are also projected on the walls
at the Lightroom gallery space in London's King Cross area.
"This show is about the wonder of the moon and the amazing creatures
that have made it possible for members of their race to walk upon it,"
Oscar-winner Hanks told Reuters in a joint interview with astronauts
Victor Glover and Jeremy Hansen, chosen to fly on what will be the first
crewed voyage around the moon in more than 50 years.
"...Men and women are going to go back...very soon and isn't it
wonderful that we have the curiosity and the drive in order to do
something for which there is no rewarded riches, there's no territory
that is going to be conquered," Hanks said. "The only thing that we are
going to get is proof that...we can not only imagine the impossible, we
can make the impossible possible.”
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Joining pilot Glover, who will be the first Black astronaut to be sent
on a lunar mission, and mission specialist Hansen are mission specialist
Christina Koch and mission commander Reid Wiseman.
The Artemis program envisions building a long-term presence on the moon.
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Tom Hanks poses at "The Moonwalkers: A Journey With Tom Hanks"
immersive show at the Lightroom venue in London, Britain in this
undated handout photo obtained by Reuters on December 5, 2023.
Justin Sutcliffe/Lightroom/Handout via REUTERS
![](http://archives.lincolndailynews.com/2023/Dec/06/images/ads/current/atlantabank_quarter_FFARM_2023.png) "We've been handed this amazing
legacy and hopefully we can just contribute to it, but then hand
that stick off to the next mission when it's time for them," Glover
said.
Hanks played space commander Jim Lovell in the 1995 film "Apollo
13", about the troubled space mission which was forced to abort a
planned moon landing after an oxygen-tank explosion.
Asked if he wanted to go to space himself, he said: “If they need
somebody to go up and just keep the windows clean and serve the food
and clean up afterwards, I'd be their man."
"There's something about the experience. I think you need time. I
know people can go up and they can come down and that's a wonderful
thing and that's great. But I think I need a little bit more time up
there to ponder the infinite universe.”
"The Moonwalkers: A Journey With Tom Hanks" runs December 6 - April
21, 2024.
(Reporting by Marie-Louise Gumuchian; Editing by Sharon Singleton)
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