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24 alternatives to Apollo VII – XVII

Photos taken by NASA’s Apollo program astronauts 1968 – 1972

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Apollo VII – XVII launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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Earth and Space▲56
Photographs from the Archives of NASA
2015 · its alternatives →
2
Moon▲241
The world's first levitating camera
2017 · its alternatives →
3
America's Forgotten Mars Mission▲91
A visual essay, from Hardbound
2016 · its alternatives →
4
NASA Picture of the Day▲167
Image of our universe every day on your Mac 🌌
2019 · its alternatives →
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My daughter and I made a site to explore the photos from the ISS▲528
2020 · callumprentice.github.io · its alternatives →
6
First Men On The Moon▲69
Relive the historic Apollo 11 Moon landing
2016 · its alternatives →
7
NASA Image and Video Library▲184
Official NASA library, searchable by keywords and metadata
2017 · its alternatives →
8
AstraPixels▲267
A pixel-art solar system at its real current positions.
Aug 2026 · astrapixels.com · its alternatives →
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Earth and Space▲2
Photographs from the Archives of NASA
2018 · its alternatives →
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Moonshot ▲442
Track the Artemis II mission from your Mac
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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NASA Selfies▲73
Create your own selfies from outer space
2018 · its alternatives →
12
Where does the moon come from?▲111
An illustrated story, from Hardbound
2016 · its alternatives →
13
Moon Monday▲73
Get lunar exploration and science updates every Monday
2021 · its alternatives →
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NASA Picture of the Day Viewer▲5
2011 · apod-viewer.heroku.com · its alternatives →
15AD
API Docs for NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day API▲18
2022 · nasa-apod.portaldocs.dev · its alternatives →
16
Live Sun and Moon Dashboard with NASA Footage▲224
Live NASA solar imagery in 12 wavelengths, the moon phase tonight for 200+ cities, and real space weather. Free on iOS and Android. No ads, no signup.
Apr 2026 · lumara-space.app · its alternatives →
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Project Da Vinci▲107
Send your video into space on a time capsule in a satellite
2017 · its alternatives →
18
CAD model of the saturn V rocket on the 55th anniversary of Apollo 8▲20
Today is the 55th anniversary of Apollo 8. I figured it would be fun to make a CAD model with a space for a model rocket engine and also as an augmented reality model. The tutorial is for Fusion360 but the steps can be adapted to most CAD programs. I would love to know what you all think!
2022 · makezine.com · its alternatives →
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NASA Artemis II Mission Timeline Tracker▲93
Apr 2026 · sunnywingsvirtual.com · its alternatives →
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RocketLaunch.org▲94
Explore the past, present and future of the space age
2024 · rocketlaunch.org · its alternatives →
21
Visions of the Future (by NASA)▲160
You can be an architect of the future
2016 · its alternatives →
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Gravity – Interactive solar-system simulator, from Newton to Einstein▲217
Just for fun and self education, I've built this over a weekend to teach myself why orbits exist, not just show planets going around. Something that was never clearly explain to me in school. It opens with a guided tour that builds the idea up step by step: two bodies and the equal/opposite force, inertia (the Sun is removed and Earth just drifts straight), then "an orbit is falling and continuously missing," cosmic velocities with a little rocket, Voyager 1 & 2's real gravity assists (the clock runs the actual 1977–1989 dates so the planets orbit into their grand-tour alignment and the…
Jun 2026 · qunabu.github.io · its alternatives →
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JFK Moonshot▲2
Brings the Apollo 11 mission to AR and VR
2019 · its alternatives →
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Histography.io▲157
Interactive history timeline from the Big Bang to 2015.
2015 · its alternatives →

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