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September 14, 2012 02:03 am GMT

Neil Armstrong Twitter Tribute Recreates Journey to the Moon


When Armstrong passed away last month at the age of 82, many of us took to the web to pay tribute to the accomplished astronaut.

Now, the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum in New York, with the help of the Martin Agency, have launched a centralized Twitter tribute, One Small Tweet, to recreate Armstrong's journey to the moon on the microblog.

Here's how it works: Every time someone tweets with the hashtag #onesmalltweet, it's equivalent to 100 miles of the journey. The tweet is displayed on the website, OneSmallTweet.com, along with the additional mileage. As more tweets come in, the website tracks each message and moves closer from the Earth to the Moon -- a total distance o…
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