The brief

Apollo 11 was the most-watched moment in human history. Six hundred million people watched the live broadcast in 1969 — but they watched on tube TVs, in grainy black and white, from a distance of 384,400 kilometres. Today's students learn about it from a textbook paragraph or a museum diorama.

We rebuilt the mission as a real-time interactive virtual tour for educational exploratory centres. Visitors put on a Meta Quest 2 and stand on the launchpad as Saturn V ignites, ride inside the command module through trans-lunar injection, descend with the LM to the Sea of Tranquillity, and step out onto the lunar surface — at the actual location, in the actual lighting, with Earth visible in the sky.

The result is a teaching tool that turns abstract history into something you stand inside. Used by science centres and educational programmes to give students a felt understanding of what space exploration is — and what it cost to do it the first time.