Katie Curtis

Ride along on the Apollo space missions to the Moon with Imaginova's Starry Night Apollo ($29.95). This virtual-reality downloadable program makes you a passenger on nine different Apollo missions and lets you experience key history-making moments from their unique perspective. Highlights include riding on the powerful Saturn V rocket, orbiting the Moon aboard Apollo 10 as the astronauts scout the future landing site of Apollo 11, and much more. Starry Night Apollo includes accurate 3-D models of all the spacecraft components, a multimedia tour of the Apollo program (including video clips of television transmissions), and accurate trajectories based on data published by NASA. Requires Windows XP, Vista, or Macintosh OSX 10.3.9 or higher.

Imaginova

470 Park Ave. South, 9th Floor, New York, NY 10016

800-252-5417; www.starrynightstore.com

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