How Things Work at NASA

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I worked for NASA for ten years across the country making space missions happen and wrote this book about my uncommon perspective. I also want to make my knowledge about space exploration available to everyone via offers at the link.

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  Atlas of Space2025 · atlasof.space · ▲770

  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…

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  Spacetime2020 · ▲166

  Be the first to know about space launches

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  What's It Like in Space? Stories from Astronauts Who've Been There2016 · ▲77

  Weird, funny and awe-inspiring stories from astronauts

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  My daughter and I made a site to explore the photos from the ISS2020 · callumprentice.github.io · ▲528
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  What's It Like in Space?2016 · ▲67

  Real stories from the men and women who have been to space

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  What's It Like in Space?2016 · ▲4

  Stories from astronauts who have been there

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  The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude▲710

  Life & fun · 16d ago · louisabraham.github.io

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  What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?▲606

  Special relativity simulator in which light crawls along at a human speed, so Lorentz contraction, aberration and Doppler shift happen at walking pace.

  Life & fun · 2d ago · rivendell.dmitrybrant.com

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  Articos▲398

  Launch with confidence, not gut instinct

  Life & fun · 17d ago · articos.com

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  The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021▲384

  9 major streaming services cost $95.91/mo in 2021-03 and $154.41/mo today — up 61%, or $702 a year. Every change sourced.

  Life & fun · 2d ago · honestlyranked.com

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  Nex▲363

  Claude Cowork for high-volume GTM workflows

  Life & fun · 9d ago · nex.ai

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  Notify.domains▲321

  Know the moment a domain opportunity appears

  Life & fun · 14d ago · notify.domains

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  Flipner AI▲1,623

  Capture your ideas & craft texts with AI's touch

  AI · 2024 · flipner.webflow.io

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  Typeframes▲1,315

  Video creation for makers

  Work · 2024 · revid.ai

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  Superlist▲1,252

  Home to all your lists

  Work · 2024 · superlist.com

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  MarketingIdeas.com▲1,230

  Never run out of marketing ideas ever again

  Growth · 2024 · marketingideas.com

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  Layers▲1,198

  A home for designers

  Work · 2024 · layers.to

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  Heyday▲1,178

  AI copilot for your own research, notes & conversations

  AI · 2024 · heyday.xyz