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Dev tools · April 6, 2026

Moonshot

Track the Artemis II mission from your Mac

Moonshot launched on April 6, 2026 with 437 votes, #31 of 21,248 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches.

In plain words

Moonshot is a macOS menu bar app that tracks NASA's Artemis II mission in real time. It displays mission phases, countdowns to key events like lunar flybys and return dates, mission elapsed time, crew information, and live telemetry context through a space-themed Earth-Moon-Orion timeline. The app pulls data from publicly available NASA mission sources, making it ideal for space enthusiasts who want to follow the mission directly from their Mac.

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From the sources

A macOS menu bar app built with SwiftUI that tracks NASA’s Artemis II mission in real time, showing mission phases, countdowns to key lunar flyby and return events, mission elapsed time, crew, live telemetry context, and a space-themed Earth-Moon-Orion timeline. Uses publicly available NASA mission data and timeline updates.

A sleek macOS menu bar app built with SwiftUI that tracks NASA’s Artemis II mission in real time, showing mission phases, countdowns to key lunar flyby and return events, mission elapsed time, crew, live telemetry context, and a space-themed Earth-Moon-Orion timeline. Uses publicly available NASA mission data and timeline updates. - aaronoleary/artemis-ii-lunar-countdown

Artemis II Lunar Countdown is a macOS menu bar app for following NASA's Artemis II mission with live countdowns, mission phases, mission elapsed time, crew info, telemetry context, and a space-themed Earth-Moon-Orion mission view. After that first launch, macOS should let you open it normally. A sleek macOS menu bar app built with SwiftUI that tracks NASA’s Artemis II mission in real time, showing mission phases, countdowns to key lunar flyby and return events, mission elapsed time, crew, live telemetry context, and a space-themed Earth-Moon-Orion timeline. Uses publicly available NASA mission data and timelinefrom github.com

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