On Apollo 11 anniversary, Google launches virtual tour of the moon

Jul 20th, 2009 - Los Angeles Times

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Google Inc. wants to fly you to the moon -- virtually.

On the 40th anniversary Monday of the Apollo 11 landing, the Internet search giant released an addition to the popular Google Earth mapping software that includes 3-D images of the moon's landscape. Astronomy enthusiasts swiftly downloaded the free software so they could take virtual tours of the lunar surface.

But will anyone else really care to spend all that time looking at the moon's gray, vapid terrain?

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