Neil Armstrong Moment: Experience Apollo 11 Through 3D And Virtual Reality

If one of your childhood fantasies or dreams was to actually see the cockpit in which the first lunar landing crew flew to the moon, you now can. Enthralled with Apollo 11 since you were a kid, you can now actually climb inside it through virtual reality and 3D! 

According to Time magazine, do not think you will see something glamorous in an Apollo command module. The whole thing is just a little over 11-ft tall. It's just a conical capsule that three astronauts used to traverse to and from the moon. It can contain only up to 210 cubic ft, so it's really nothing significant. 

Still, regardless of how beat up and small it now looks, no on can really forget what it managed to do. It was after all, what Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin used to land on the moon for the very first time - 47 years ago to be exact. 

Since then, Apollo 11 was left to become some sort of a display piece, ceased in a protective plastic shell and put up at the Smithsonian Institution's national Air and Space Museum.

Those who are interested to see what it looks like can just go there but only see through its windows and open latch. People can stare at it for hours without having a sense of what it is like to be inside.  

But this is changing now. 

Through a 3D experience, created by none other than Smithsonian itself and its partner Autodesk, which is a company that makes cloud-based 3D designs, people can now feel what it's like to Neil Armstrong, even for just a bit! 

Through 3d vial scanners, every cubic inch of the small space where the astronauts once lived can be viewed and visually experienced by ordinary people like us. 

The innovation can be viewed both in flat screen pan-and -scan on Google Cardboard whether you are an iOs or Android user. 

Now every crack, every crevice, and every panel of that ship can be seen by us! We can even see a calendar indicating every day the mission flew- from July 16 through July 24, 1969. How cool is that?

Want to try? Just click here.