Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to How far can you go in space?
Interstellar space travel and see what lies in the universe.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. How far can you go in space? launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Atlas of Spacefree▲770Hello HN! Sharing a recent side project of mine, the Atlas of Space, that I built out to explore the Solar System. As a long-time space nerd, I realized recently that I didn't have a good intuition on the scale, speed, and relative orientation of the celestial bodies around us. So over the break I built out a kind of spatial Wikipedia to click around and learn about planets, moons, asteroids, and other bodies orbiting the Sun. The physics is all simulated in the browser using simple Newtonian mechanics. There's a lot left to do from here, including modeling objects in non-Keplerian orbits…
2025 · atlasof.space · its alternatives →
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2020 · callumprentice.github.io · its alternatives →
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An interactive visualization of the universe
2019 · neal.fun · its alternatives →
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Astronaut▲139You're an astronaut. Click to watch random videos in space.
2017 · astronaut.io · its alternatives →
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Travel our universe in the palm of your hand
2020 · shop-us.kurzgesagt.org · its alternatives →
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Weird, funny and awe-inspiring stories from astronauts
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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HyperSpace Δ▲69Travel in hyperspace and avoid deadly geometry
2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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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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This is a little hobby project that I hope you enjoy. You can see where the International Space Station is now, with live HD video from NASA, on a realistic 3D globe. The positions of the sun and moon are also accurate, though distances aren't to scale. The clouds are also near-realtime; I span that out into a separate project at https://clouds.matteason.co.uk, where the cloud images I create from EUMETSAT data are freely available. I've got more features almost ready to go, like the ability to turn off all UI, toggleable clouds and turning off the day/night cycle I'd love for…
2024 · iss.matteason.co.uk · its alternatives →
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Eclipse 2017▲110NASA's interactive eclipse path for your location
2017 · science.nasa.gov · its alternatives →
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Real stories from the men and women who have been to space
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Blast Off▲73See how far in space you can get in this endless shoot em up
2016 · irf-media.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I’ve always been fascinated by space and how much is happening beyond what we usually see day to day. I wanted a simple way to explore space photography and learn what I was actually looking at, without jumping between lots of different sites or long articles. So I built DailySpace, an Android app for exploring a large collection of space photos with short and clear explanations. You can browse thousands of images of galaxies, nebulae, planets, stars, black holes, Earth, and different NASA missions organized into categories or found through search. As I kept using it myself, I added…
Jan 2026 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Space Probes▲81A catalog of space probes at the Moon and beyond
2015 · spaceprob.es · its alternatives →
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~spaces~ V2▲64virtual universe w/ you can create worlds and meet friends
2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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