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Ben Feist
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Software Engineer, Data Visualization & Informatics and Historian at NASA Johnson Space Center. Creator of ApolloInRealtime.org, Astromaterials3D,
@apollo11movie team. Other account: @benfeist@astrodon.social
Emily Carney interviewed David Charney and me about ISS in Real Time for an article in The Space Review. Thanks, Emily!
www.thespacereview.com/article/5092/1
November 5, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I got clouds integrated this weekend. Click the little cloud icon on the globe / map and you'll get that day's cloud cover.
November 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
T-minus 4 hours until the 25th anniversary of sustained human presence in space.
issinrealtime.org
November 2, 2025 at 5:25 AM
NASA guy uses telescope.
My late father left me his enormous 8” astrophotography telescope. I finally got it operational last night. Visual eyepieces only (camera gear pending). Managed to snap these pics through the eyepiece.
September 1, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Trump announces new tarrifs right here.
April 2, 2025 at 9:07 PM
ISS spacewalk currently underway. Suni Williams just surpassed Peggy Whitson's record for most spacewalk hours completed by a woman. Incredible.

Meanwhile the press:
January 30, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Apollo 17's first lunar EVA is underway!

apolloinrealtime.org/17/
December 12, 2024 at 12:26 AM
December 3, 2024 at 3:50 AM
I'm working on a new project to bring the day to day activities on the ISS to life. issinrealtime.org will be a cousin to apolloinrealtime.org. It will place all of the public mission data into context for playback.

I'm currently transcribing all space-to-ground comm dating back to 2015.
November 29, 2024 at 4:26 PM
Had an inspiring week at Johnson Space Center where we ran a series of Artemis 3 EVA simulations. Mission Control supported the crew as they walked on the Moon in VR with the Artemis 3 science team learning how to support operations from the Science Evaluation Room.
November 23, 2024 at 12:31 AM