APOLLO 11 IN REAL TIME, A real-time journey through the first landing on the Moon. Relive every moment as it occurred in 1969 NASA’s Apollo 11 mission, second by second, from 20 hours before the launch on July 16, 1969, to just after Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins stepped aboard the USS Hornet recovery ship nine days later.

This website replays the Apollo 11 mission as it happened, 50 years ago. It consists entirely of historical material, all timed to Ground Elapsed Time–the master mission clock. Footage of Mission Control, film shot by the astronauts, and television broadcasts transmitted from space and the surface of the Moon, have been painstakingly placed to the very moments they were shot during the mission, as has every photograph taken, and every word spoken.

Included real-time elements:

• 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