Studio Drift has recreated its flying sculpture Franchise Freedom at Kennedy Space Center, programming 300 drones to perform a routine marking the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission launch.
The Amsterdam-based studio headed by artists Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta adapted the performative artwork to work in time with a performance by British rock band Duran Duran.

The one-time-only custom edition of Franchise Freedom was developed to celebrate the launch of Apollo 11, which landed commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin on the moon on 20 July 1969.
The evening concert was held in the Rocket Garden at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex on Merritt Island, Florida.
The audience witnessed 300 luminous Intel Shooting Star drones swarming above them as Duran Duran played an original piece of music composed specially to accompany the light show.
"It was like a childhood dream come true," said Nauta, speaking to Dezeen from Florida the morning after the event, held on 16 June.
"It's so humbling to fly your artwork above NASA rockets with astronauts that have been to the moon watching, for the 50th anniversary of what is the most epic achievement of humankind."

The individual drones with built-in LED light sources lifted off from an area behind the stage before forming an aerial swarm intended to represent the tension between individual freedom and safety in numbers.
At a key moment in the song, some of the drones created ...