wechoosethemoonCombining the forces of CyberSpace, Social Media, and the John F Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, the new WeChooseTheMoon website will be recreating the history Apollo 11 lunar mission.  You can view photographs and videos from the archives, follow the entire event minute by minute on three separate twitter feeds, and browse thousands of pages of declassified mission documents.

“The undertaking is pretty massive. We’re joking a lot about how sending millions to the moon in cyberspace in 2009 is going to end up taking just as much time as sending three guys to the moon in 1969,” said Joe Alexander, creative director at The Martin Agency. “But truly, we feel honored to be doing it. There’s a real sense of purpose, living up to JFK’s idea that the space race will bring out the best in us. We don’t want to let JFK – in a real sense, our client – down. So there’s a little pressure, which is good.”

Currently in “Stage 1: Prelaunch”, the actual “liftoff” will be July 16th, 9:32am, exactly 40 years after the original launch.  Some high-quality 3D animations have been created that will accompany the various stages of the event.

via Apollo 11 Blasts off Again on July 16th at WeChooseTheMoon.org