Follow The Moon Landing Live (+40 Years)

It was 40 years ago this month that the first two humans - American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin - first set foot on the Moon, one of the biggest achievements in human history and an event that ended the Space Race between the United States and Soviet Union.

The idea of the Moon mission was first proposed by President John F. Kennedy in 1962, after his assassination a year later, the country took on making his idea a reality as a way of honoring the slain president. Now the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library has come up with an innovative way of commemorating the 40th anniversary of the event, by using new media to report on the Moon landing like it was happening today.

The website wechoosethemoon.org (the name is taken from a line in Kennedy's Moon speech) will follow the mission in real-time (well, real-time, plus forty years), complete with e-mail alerts and Twitter updates of key moments during the mission as they happen (or happened). It's a pretty interesting way to relive one of the milestone events of the 20th century.