The Washington Monument looked more like Kennedy Space Center this weekend, when a life-size projection of the Saturn V rocket that carried the first astronauts to the moon lit up the sky-scraping memorial.

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The display was part of show Friday and Saturday nights depicting highlights from the historic Apollo 11 moon landing on its 50th anniversary.

A 40-foot-tall replica of the countdown clock at Kennedy Space Center ticked down as the spectacle got under way, and cheers erupted from the crowd gathered on the National Mall as a 363-foot-tall image of the Saturn V appeared to blast off from the 555-foot-tall monument.

The 17-minute spectacle, put on thanks to archival footage from the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, took viewers along for the journey from liftoff to lunar steps to the heroic astronauts’ terrestrial return.

“It was very moving,” Zandy Williams of Fairfax County, Va., told WTOP-FM. “I was 6 years old at my grandmother’s house watching them land on the moon. I still have vivid memories of seeing Neil Armstrong when he first stepped on the moon.”

While putting on the exhibition may not have been as large an operation as the actual moon landing, it did require special permission from the US Congress, White House support, and help from the Department of the Interior, the show’s executive producer, Nick Partridge, told PBS, adding that the arrangement was “not quite as complicated as an actual launch pad, but it’s actually its own kind of technical marvel.”

The monument was chosen as a backdrop because it “creates this really powerful visual to symbolize and emphasize the position of the moon landing in American identity,” he said.