Posts Tagged ‘JFK Library’

Fly to the Moon via Dorchester

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

The JFK Library’s WeChooseTheMoon web site has started recreating the launch that put two men on the moon — if, in fact, that did happen. NASA just admitted it lost the original tapes.

So far, there’s not a lot happening on the site, other than the countdown to launch. Starting at 9:32 this morning — 40 years to the minute from the launch — you can follow the events of the launch on the site and at three twitter feeds. Aside from dinner with the president, so far the tweets aren’t much more exciting than the tweets of anybody else who may or may not be pretending to visit the moon:

Preparation for first lunar landing still on schedule.
3:54 PM Jun 27th from web

Apollo Program director just approved color TV coverage of our flight.
11:38 AM Jun 13th from web

Still stuffed from last night.
9:34 AM Jun 11th from web

Dining at White House tonight with crew from Apollo 10. And the President.
9:34 AM Jun 11th from web

Neil, Buzz and Mike are ready to go the Moon.
9:34 AM Jun 11th from web

T-Minus 36 days 22 hours to launch.
9:00 AM Jun 9th from web

After the jump, check out NASA’s restored video of the landing. (more…)

Red Line gets two lunar stops, courtesy of MIT and JFK Library

Monday, June 15th, 2009
MIT Photo

MIT Photo

With the 40th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing coming up next month, MIT alum Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong dropped by Kendall Sq. for the Giant Leaps conference last week. The former astronauts, among other things, posed with a replica of their moon lander (right) which some MIT scamps had, obviously, put on MIT’s Great Dome.  

Seven stops down the Red Line, the JFK Library is launching a web site next month to commemorate President John F. Kennedy’s role in getting Aldrin and Armstrong up there. The site goes live 40 years to the minute after the launch, and is intended to recreate the mission through audio, video, photos and other multimedia.

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