Web site recreates Apollo 11 mission in real time

WenPub2 ^ | July 12, 2009 | MELISSA TRUJILLO

[libertarian27]

Families crowded around black-and-white television sets in 1969 to watch Neil Armstrong take man’s first steps on the moon. Now, they’ll be able to watch the Apollo 11 mission recreated in real time on the Web, follow Twitter feeds of transmissions between Mission Control and the spacecraft, and even get an e-mail alert when the lunar module touches down. Those features are part of a new Web site from the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum commemorating the moon mission and Kennedy’s push to land Americans there first. “Putting a man on the moon really did unite the globe,” said Thomas Putnam, director of the JFK Library. “We hope to use the Internet to do the same thing.” The Web site — WeChooseTheMoon.org — goes live at 8:02 a.m. Thursday, 90 minutes before the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch from Cape Canaveral, Fla. It will track the capsule’s route from the Earth to the Moon, ending with the moon landing and Armstrong’s walk — in real time, but 40 years later. Internet visitors can see animated recreations of key events from the four-day mission, including when Apollo 11 first orbits the moon and when the lunar module separates from the command module, as well as browse video clips and photos and hear the radio transmission between the astronauts and NASA flight controllers.

[bigbob]

I think this is (will be) exceptionally cool!

Showing once again what our great nation is capable of, under proper leadership.

[Always Right]

With technology, actual space travel is obsolete. We can put a man on the Mars and the video would be so good, no one would doubt it.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Steve Van Doorn]

yeah we could put a flag on the moon and find it on mars.

[KevinDavis]

[callisto]

Audio from the entire Apollo 11 mission will be replayed on the Internet at the time and date it was broadcast in 1969
http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/apollo11_radio/

[colorado tanker]

Once again I recommend the movie, The Dish. The actors do a terrific job of recreating expressions of wonder at watching the first man to walk on the Moon. I remember those snowy images like it happened yesterday.

[djf]

I bumped across this site last night.
Literally thousands of photos.

The debunkers got their work cut out for them...

http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/images11.html#Launch