--- title: Experience Apollo 11 Moon Landing in Augmented Reality description: Now, you can take part in the historic Apollo 11 mission thanks to TIME's AR experience, the world's most accurate 3D re-creation. canonical: https://time.com/5627681/apollo-11-moon-landing-immersive-experience/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-07-18T10:00:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:56:51.049Z article:section: Science og:title: Experience Apollo 11 Moon Landing in Augmented Reality og:description: Now, you can take part in the historic Apollo 11 mission thanks to TIME's AR experience, the world's most accurate 3D re-creation. og:url: https://time.com/5627681/apollo-11-moon-landing-immersive-experience/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdb9f80f40194c44c/698a0034b3fce3972c0c5405/time-immersive-apollo-ar.jpg?branch=production&width=1116&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1116 og:image:height: 628 og:image:alt: TIME-immersive-apollo-ar og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Experience Apollo 11 Moon Landing in Augmented Reality twitter:description: Now, you can take part in the historic Apollo 11 mission thanks to TIME's AR experience, the world's most accurate 3D re-creation. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdb9f80f40194c44c/698a0034b3fce3972c0c5405/time-immersive-apollo-ar.jpg?branch=production&width=1116&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- # Welcome to TIME Immersive's Apollo 11 'Landing on the Moon' Experience > Sponsored content. 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It reaches 40,000 subscribers with a 34.2% open rate and a 2.1% click rate as of August 2026. #### Where can I follow the energy transition as a business story? Future Proof covers climate and energy as an economic and business story rather than only an environmental one. It publishes every Friday and is free at time.com/newsletters. #### Who writes Future Proof? Justin Worland, a senior correspondent at TIME and an award-winning climate journalist, writes Future Proof. #### Is Future Proof free? Yes. Future Proof is free at time.com/newsletters. Jul 18, 2019 10:00 AM UTC  by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Jul 18, 2019 10:00 AM UTC ## Download the TIME Immersive App On July 20, 1969, Earth was missing three of its humans. They had left for the moon four days earlier, and now, two of them were preparing to descend from lunar orbit and land in the Sea of Tranquility on the lunar module. Only those two could ever say what it was like to be onboard. But 50 years later, we can all take part in the famous mission, thanks to the _Landing on the Moon_ AR (augmented reality) experience. The Apollo 11 simulation on which you’re about to embark, which is the world’s most accurate 3-D re-creation of the moon landing, is the result of TIME’s partnership with the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, as well as years of painstaking research by Industrial Light and Magic CCO John Knoll. Told in two chapters, _Landing on the Moon_ allows you to witness Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s landing from three breathtaking points of view; in Chapter 2, you can explore the surface of the moon, walk to the foot of the lunar module, and watch within inches of Neil Armstrong’s space suit as he plants the flag.   In addition to being photorealistic, the experience offers viewers a scientifically and historically accurate view of the landing. Knoll recreated the flight path of the lunar module using digitized telemetry graphs provided by NASA, while he calculated the position and orientation of the camera by analyzing lunar landmarks. The moon’s landscape was derived primarily from data collected by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, a probe NASA launched in 2009, with smaller features taken from photographs using computer vision techniques. The result is a stunning and precise rendering of one of humankind’s greatest feats. The rendering of [Armstrong’s suit](https://time.com/5422609/armstrong-spacesuit-smithsonian/) was provided by the Smithsonian’s Digitization Office. _Landing on the Moon_ is available for [iOS](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/time-immersive/id1457280646?mt=8) and [Android](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.time.timeimmersive&hl=en%5FUS&utm%5Fsource=time.com&utm%5Fcampaign=time-immersive-longform&pcampaignid=MKT-Other-global-all-co-prtnr-py-PartBadge-Mar2515-1) devices in the [TIME Immersive app](https://time.com/longform/time-immersive-app/). 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