 Over the span of her thirty-nine-year seagoing career, "QE2" received a number of interior refits and alterations.The year she came into service, 1969, was also the year of the Apollo 11 mission, when the Concorde's prototype was unveiled, and the previous year Stanley Kubrick's film "" premiered.In keeping with those times, originally Cunard broke from the traditional interiors of their previous liners for "QE2", especially the Art Deco style of the previous "Queens".