Fifty years ago this morning (at 9:32 EDT), the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon was launched from the Kennedy Space Center, FL. If you want to experience the Apollo 11 "real- time mission experience," go immediately to "Apollo 11 In Real Time." It's just an incredible tour de force that enables you to watch either from 1 minute to launch or from the in- progress time. If you link before 9:32 EDT today, click on "Now" for the in- progress to feel the excitement of the launch as it happened exactly 50 years ago. Regardless, you can view the in- progress at any time until July 24, when the mission ended. We've never seen anything quite like this, to say the least.
The real- time mission experience includes:
- All mission control film footage
- All TV transmissions and onboard film footage
- 2,000 photographs
- 11,000 hours of Mission Control audio
- 240 hours of space-to-ground audio
- All onboard recorder audio
- 15,000 searchable utterances
- Post-mission commentary
- Astromaterials sample data
