Land Rover's New Ad for CNN's 'Apollo 11' Documentary Inspires Discovery on Earth and Mars

It stars citizen astronaut candidate Shawna Pandya

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To the untrained eye high above the surface, the Utah desert can look a lot like Mars. It’s red. It’s dusty. It’s mountainous. It’s barren. It’s foreboding.

And that’s the point.

A new ad for Land Rover shot at the Mars Desert Research Station features physician and scientist Shawna Pandya and focuses on her training as a citizen astronaut candidate who could someday travel far beyond the moon.

The spot, created by CNN’s branded content studio, Courageous, will debut this summer before the IMAX screenings of the network’s feature documentary “Apollo 11: First Steps Edition,” which commemorates the 50th anniversary of the lunar landing in 1969.

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