A group of seniors from the Manoir Westmount residence were taken for an out-of-this-world trip down memory lane by federal Transport Minister Marc Garneau.

The one-off performance comes as a celebration of the 50th anniversary of NASA's iconic Apollo 11 launch.

William Carpentier. an Edmonton native, was the flight surgeon for the historical Apollo 11 mission on July 20, 1969 and appears in the Canadian special "Make It To The Moon," airing Sunday on Discovery and Discovery Science.