It was, of course, 40 years ago this month that Neil Armstrong famously took his small step for man on the moon. Those of a certain age will remember seeing it on TV. Now younger generations can live through the whole adventure thanks to a new website.
WeChooseTheMoon.org took to the skies yesterday, revisiting the entire mission, including the journeys there and back. It sponsored by the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
The site uses old video and audio (44 videos and 109 hours of audio), as well as more modern techniques like computer animation, to bring the Apollo 11 mission back to life, with “real-time” transmission between the astronauts and Houston – which, this being the 21st century, can also be followed on Twitter.
Joe Alexander, creative director at the Martin Agency which created the site, said:
"The undertaking is pretty massive. We're joking a lot about how sending millions to the moon in cyberspace in 2009 is going to end up taking just as much time as sending three guys to the moon in 1969."
And what will happen to the site once man has virtually been and gone from the moon It will become a self-guided tour.
