To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing, the website We Choose The Moon is replaying the live transmissions from the Apollo 11 mission in realtime. At this moment 40 years ago, the Command Service Module was nearly 169,000 nautical miles from Earth, heading toward the moon at 3349 feet/second. They'll be entering lunar orbit around this time tomorrow. And if listening to the radio chatter isn't enough for you, the site also has lots of photos and videos from the mission to explore.
Be warned site is Flash-heavy. (Thanks to Bad Astronomy for the pointer!)
Equally cool: NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is currently in orbit around the moon, taking high-definition photographs of its surface. It took images of the lunar landing sites last week.
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