Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
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. How Things Work at NASA launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hello 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 · its alternatives →
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2020 · callumprentice.github.io · its alternatives →
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Real stories from the men and women who have been to space
2016 · 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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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/
Oct 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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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 · its alternatives →
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Official NASA library, searchable by keywords and metadata
2017 · its alternatives →
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Me and a few friends made this design document as part of our entry to the UK CanSat competition where a high school team is required to build a probe to be launched. The probe must serve some purpose, and ours was to map the temperature and pressure of the air at different altitudes. We had the opportunity to launch it a week ago and you can find the video of our launch here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/16bsLzxjP7OWRqVvCB62cLv7QYLR... During the launch we reached 400m above sea level, and the can pulled 70gs successfully. The parachute and can stayed intact.…
2025 · drive.google.com · its alternatives →
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Inspirational story of Peter Diamandis & spaceflight mission
2016 · its alternatives →
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