APOLLO 11
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COLUMBIA

Inside the real Apollo 11 command module
Laser-scanned by the Smithsonian  ·  CC0

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find all 25 stations — the glowing points

Station text: Smithsonian 3D Digitization
LANTAW INSIDE · SMITHSONIAN SCAN
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The most documented 4 cubic metres in history

Columbia carried Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins to the Moon and back in July 1969 — the only part of the Apollo 11 stack that returned to Earth. In 2016 the Smithsonian laser-scanned it inside and out, and released the result to the public domain. What you are floating through is that scan: the real couches, the real 566-switch control panel, the real DSKY keyboard of the Apollo Guidance Computer.

The scan also revealed writing on the walls unseen since 1969: a hand-drawn calendar crossing off the mission days, navigation numbers pencilled beside the sextant, and Collins' inscription — "the best ship to come down the line" — written on the equipment bay after splashdown. All 25 glowing stations carry the Smithsonian's own curatorial notes. Find them all.

This is the first scene in LANTAW's Inside wing: real interiors, from real scan data, explorable like the terrain. No modelling, no invention — if you can float to it, it exists.

Data & sources

Scan: Smithsonian 3D Digitization (CC0)  ·  Columbia, Apollo 11