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24 alternatives to How Things Work at NASA
Everything you ever wanted to know about NASA and space
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 Things Work at NASA launched in 2024; 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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Weird, funny and awe-inspiring stories from astronauts
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Tomorrow's jobs are in space…especially if you're 10.
2016 · inkshares.com · its alternatives →
- 4MD
2020 · callumprentice.github.io · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! Pilots everywhere are required to keep a logbook of all their flying hours, aircraft, airports, and so on. Since I track everything digitally (some people still just use paper logbooks!), I put together some data visualizations and a few 3D globes to show my flying history. This globe is probably my favourite so far: https://jameshard.ing/pilot/globes/all If you’ve got ideas for other graphs or ways to show this kind of data, I’d love to hear them!
2025 · jameshard.ing · 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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Photographs from the Archives of NASA
2015 · chroniclebooks.com · its alternatives →
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Stories from astronauts who have been there
2016 · amazon.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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Find non-tech jobs for people passionate about space
2022 · weworkinspace.com · its alternatives →
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WTF NASA▲92What the f%&k has NASA done to make your life awesome?
2016 · wtfnasa.com · its alternatives →
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Today my collaborator and I are releasing issinrealtime.org, a multimedia project that plays back every day onboard the ISS. Feedback welcomed. Here's an article that was just released about it: https://www.collectspace.com/news/news-102725a-iss-in-real-t... I also wrote a "making of" post about it here: https://benfeist.com/posts/iss-in-real-time/
2025 · issinrealtime.org · its alternatives →
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Project Da Vinci▲107Send your video into space on a time capsule in a satellite
2017 · its alternatives →
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You can be an architect of the future
2016 · jpl.nasa.gov · its alternatives →
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An astronaut's tale of his time in space.
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The past and the future of space exploration.
2015 · waitbutwhy.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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Astronaut▲139You're an astronaut. Click to watch random videos in space.
2017 · astronaut.io · its alternatives →
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Explore the past, present and future of the space age
2024 · rocketlaunch.org · its alternatives →
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About ingenuity, determination & being prepared for anything
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Official NASA library, searchable by keywords and metadata
2017 · images.nasa.gov · its alternatives →
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