--- 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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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/). You can also check out a mobile web AR teaser [here](https://time.com/apollo11ar) **Contact us** at [TIMEImmersive@time.com](mailto:TIMEImmersive@time.com?subject=%28READER%20FEEDBACK%29%20TIME%20Immersive-%20Apollo%2011%20Experience). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5627681/apollo-11-moon-landing-immersive-experience/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5627681/apollo-11-moon-landing-immersive-experience/"},"headline":"Welcome to TIME Immersive's Apollo 11 'Landing on the Moon' Experience","datePublished":"2019-07-18T10:00:55.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:56:51.049Z","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.","url":"https://time.com/5627681/apollo-11-moon-landing-immersive-experience/","keywords":["Space","apollo1150"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5627681/apollo-11-moon-landing-immersive-experience/","name":"Welcome to TIME Immersive's Apollo 11 'Landing on the Moon' Experience"}}]}] ```