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Apollo IX Astronau Russell Schweickart (on right)
standing in his avatar at the 30th anniversary Apollo XI reenactment

Introduction

On July 20th 1999, a very special event occured in a small corner of Avatar Cyberspace, the reenactment of the Apollo XI and IX lunar mission on their 30th Anniversaries. One hundred people enter a special virtual world called MOON build by the CERHAS project lead by Benjamin Britton at the University of Cincinnatti. MOON is accessible in the Active Worlds universe and can be visited today. MOON includes a full museum to the past decades of manned space travel. Bruce Damer and DigitalSpace Corporation were instrumental in recruiting Apollo IX Astranaut Russell Schweickart to enter the world on the date and time of the Apollo landing 30th anniversary and tour guests through landing sites and a recreation of his mission on Apollo IX. These pages document a historic event where "outer space met cyber space". You can also read the complete chat log of the event. MOON is being made as part of a Web - DVD art project by Benjamin Britton at The University of Cincinnati. for additional information, see the CERHAS MOON Project pages and our Apollo IX with Rusty Schweickart and Apollo XI Rehearsals pages. To visit MOON on the Internet, download and install Active Worlds and teleport to the world MOON. Images by DigiGardener (Bruce Damer) and Daphne.

Table of Contents
1) Reenacting the Apollo XI landings 30 years to the minute from the event, July 20, 1969-July 20, 1999 2) Journey with Astronaut Russell Schweickart on Virtual Apollo IX 3) Complete chat log of the event
1) Reenacting the Apollo XI landings 30 years to the minute from the event, July 20, 1969-July 20, 1999
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Crowds gather at the Apollo reenactment site in MOON world




The Lunar Excursion Module up close Apollo IX Astronaut Rusty Schweickart on the virtual moon facing the LM Avatar attendees practicing their own "one small steps"


Facing down the ladder, heart poundingThats one small step.


..for an avatar.. ..and one giant leap for Cyberspace!


View of Slate, designer of these models, coming down the ladder. Well Slate, was it all worth it?

2) Journey with Astronaut Russell Schweickart on Virtual
Apollo IX
on orbit March 3 - 13, 1969
and in cyberspace 30 years later in 1999

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Rusty Schweickart floating around in his avatar (actually a recration of Neil Armstrong)


Crowds gather in the CERHAS museum near the Apollo IX recreation Another view of the hall, showing mission badges for Mercury, Gemini and Apollo


Rusty in the vicinity of the CSM Rusty Schweickart in his lunar suit avatar entering the Command Module, "a tight squeeze in here" he says speaking from experience  

Read the complete chat log of the event
Apollo IX with Rusty Schweickart
Apollo XI Rehearsals
or
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