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We Choose the Moon is a real-time, interactive recreation of the Apollo 11 mission, 40 years after the dream became a reality.

Using audio, video and photographs from NASA archives, as well as computer animation, the site recreates the four-day trip to the moon’s surface. Real-time transmissions between the astronauts and NASA flight control will also feature and can be followed both on the site and via Twitter. The name of the site is taken from a speech President Kennedy gave in 1962:

“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because the challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone and one which we intend to win.”

Real-time updates will take place during the mission from the 16th to the 20th July 2009, after which the site will change so that viewers can explore at leisure. A selection of photographs has also been made available on The Boston Globe’s Big Picture website.

July 16th, 2009 | Tags: Apollo 11, Moon, NASA | Category: Online Resources | Leave a comment