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Space Oddity: We Choose the Moon Posted by Ciara O'Rourke on July 16, 2009 at 1:22 am

Relive the Apollo 11 moon mission to the minute. The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library has launched a new Web site that goes live at 9:32 a.m. July 16 — exactly 40 years after lift off.

We Choose the Moon celebrates the anniversary of the first lunar landing with some great virtual gadgets that JFK could only dream of when he ordered a rush job to the moon by the end of the decade.

Preview the site  before the big debut: swoop around the spacecraft, spend a sleepless night with the launch countdown, or download a widget that tracks the four-day mission on your desktop, Facebook or MySpace pages.

You can even receive mission updates from three different Twitter accounts.

The Web site uses archived audio, video and photos, and “real time” transmissions to recreate the launch as if you were watching it on an old Sylvania instead of your iPhone.

photo credit: penguinbush’s Flickr photostream (creative commons)


CATEGORIES:  Culture, Education, Global Health


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