Experience the first landing on the Moon

This website replays the Apollo 11 mission as it happened, 51 years ago. It consists entirely of historical material.

Select whether to begin one minute before launch, or click "Now" to drop in exactly 51 years ago, to-the-second during the anniversary.

Mobile Edition

The mobile edition features Apollo 11's Mission Control audio. Select a Mission Control audio channel by touching the seats in mission control, or the channel buttons below. These 50 channels of Mission Control audio have only recently been digitized and restored, and are made publicly available here for the first time. They total over 11,000 hours in length.

The full desktop/laptop version of this website contains all of the mission's historical media. Footage of Mission Control, film shot by the astronauts, television broadcasts transmitted from space and the surface of the Moon, have all been painstakingly placed to the very moments they were shot during the mission, as has every photograph taken, and every word spoken.

Please contact Ben Feist for any inquiries.

Credits

Ben Feist Concept, research, mission data restoration, audio restoration, video, software architecture and programming. Follow @BenFeist for updates.



Stephen Slater Archive Producer, historical audio/footage syncronization



Chris Bennett Visual design, interface styling and programming

David Charney Visual design

Arnfinn Holderer Audio restoration programming



Robin Wheeler Photography timing, transcript corrections



Thanks

Todd Miller Director, Apollo 11 film

Tom Petersen Producer, Apollo 11 film



Dr. John Hansen and the National Science Foundation 30-track Mission Control audio digitization. More info at exploreapollo.org



NASA Headquarters

Dr. Bill Barry Chief Historian, NASA HQ

Dr. Jacob Bleacher Chief Exploration Scientist, NASA HQ



NASA Johnson Space Center

Dr. Cindy Evans Division Chief, Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science (ARES) Division, NASA JSC

Dan Garrison Jacobs Technology, NASA JSC

Dr. Ryan Zeigler Manager, Apollo Curator, ARES, NASA JSC

Dr. Paul Niles Assistant Chief Scientist, ARES NASA JSC

Sandra Tetley Real Property Officer, Historic Preservation Officer, NASA JSC

Greg Wiseman 30-track Mission Control audio digitization, NASA JSC



NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Dr. Noah Petro Project Scientist, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Planetary Geology, Geochemistry and Geophysics Lab, NASA Goddard



David Woods Author, How Apollo Flew to the Moon

Kipp Teague Apollo mission photography

NASA Apollo Flight Journal

NASA Apollo Lunar Surface Journal

Internet Archive

The crew of Apollo 11

The men and women of Mission Control

Beta Testers

Mike Dinn

Todd Green

Ian House

Joey Schwartz

David Charney

Sammy Goldberg

Robin Wheeler

Joe Davenport

Linden Sims

Suzanne Molina

Kevin Spencer