July 18 (UPI) -- In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, designers at Microsoft built a replica of the Columbia command module's hatch, the door that Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong used to exit the command module and enter the lunar lander, Eagle.
The hatch will be used for a live build event, dubbed Project Egress, at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., on Friday. Different components of the Apollo 11 command module, Columbia, will be created by 44 teams of makers and assembled onsite.