Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11's Moon Landing, with Commentary from Buzz Aldrin

The anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing—one of mankind’s greatest achievements—has inspired us to dramatically step up our own work, enhancing our earlier moon-landing demo with NVIDIA RTX real-time ray tracing technology.

The result: a beautiful, near-cinematic depiction of one of history’s great moments. Relive the moment with commentary from Buzz Aldrin, whose giant leap years ago inspires new generations of moonshots today.

[nicoxis]

The simulation is far from impressive to be honest.. this looks prehistoric compared to Reflections Real-Time Ray Tracing Demo that Unreal Engine did mora than a year ago.

[SteverRob]

I see Buzz’ punching arm is still armed and ready.

[ToomeysLottoMadness]

So that's the secret? Go to the Moon and stay forever Young???

[jameskenny]

He is the definition of courage. He was going to sue his children years ago for claiming he had dementia for inheritance, looked at Trump in sarcasm when even reporters are afraid and also punched a guy for calling him a coward and liar.

[Ben-umpe]

Okay the animators didn't do very good look at the the clipping honestly

[blackteas]

Can he just punch each of these primitive
conspiracy theorists in the comment section live on camera again for 50th Anniversary?
Go Buzz, we count to 50!

[ohnhzlc]

I watched the Takeoff, Lunar Landing and return safely to Earth all LIVE as it happened, and even as an 8 yr. old i was moved to tears each time. those three guys were the bravest of the Brave REAL HEROS !!!!

[tonygreene]

Was anyone else disappointed that the majority of this video was filler? I was expecting it to be a full-on technical demo... 😒

[Zefram]

I can't believe they went to the moon with less computing power than a graphics card. That is insane.

[jrkc]

2:01 why is the moon in the background when they are on the moon

[Owenzzz]

So nvidia will help NASA film Mars Lansing with RTX next?

[Molesy]

@nvidia will you release the Apollo 11 demo with RTX for public ?

[rodneyking]

Why didn't they take videos leaving the moon?

[petemcgagh]

I don't remember seeing any stars

[cptairwolf]

what a disservice we've done to these heroes by abandoning the pursuit of space exploration after the Apollo missions. It would be a shame if we lost them all before returning to the moon or mars.

[IndyStry]

That awkward moment when Nvidia "recreates" the landing but doesn't realize at 2:00 the lighting angle on the astronaut and on the earth behind him are completely opposite. Fail.

[wilhitman]

This is awesome History & Technology at work together. Awesome to see this.

[brucegrit]

From the jetsons, major matt mason, voyage to the bottom of the sea to Johnny quest and lost in space what an era and glad to have lived it.

[cActUsjUiCe]

Why make something like this if you aren't going to render/record it in 4k?

[mirko]

im using ur graphics card and i have a problem in runing cs go it says your graphics hardware does not suppoert all features csm needed to run this game pls help me