Ben Feist
@benfeist.bsky.social
Software Engineer, Data Visualization & Informatics and Historian at NASA Johnson Space Center. Creator of ApolloInRealtime.org, Astromaterials3D, @apollo11movie team. Other account: @benfeist@astrodon.social
Something fun: Introducing Ask an Astronaut, a website for all ages where you can enter your own questions to explore thousands of questions and answers between students and astronauts on the International Space Station. askanastronaut.issinrealtime.org
Ask an Astronaut
Find your question among hundreds of astronaut interviews aboard the International Space Station
askanastronaut.issinrealtime.org
On March 25th at noon ET I'll be giving a public, online talk for the NASA History Office about ISS in Real Time, a project that @dwcharn and I made last year. Everyone is welcome! RSVP at the link. lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/4xjb6...
ISS in Real Time: Capturing 25 Years on the Space Station
Ben Feist will present on his monumental multimedia project “ISS in Real Time.” Built in collaboration with David Charney, this interactive website aggregates millions of pieces of publicly available ...
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ISS in Real Time has been updated with comm, photos, articles, and spacecraft details. We have comm as recent as Monday this week! issinrealtime.org
The crew onboard the ISS commemorated the 25th anniversary of having people onboard with a radio communication. Click the link to listen. It was during the US government shutdown, so NASA has just released the mission data that includes the onboard event. issinrealtime.org/2025-11-02T1...
😎 This is cool 👇 Explore 25 years on the International Space Station. This multimedia project replays every day of the past 25 years on board and consists entirely of historical mission material. By @benfeist.bsky.social and David Charney. issinrealtime.org
ISS in Real Time
Explore 25 years onboard the International Space Station.
issinrealtime.org
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
👨🚀 For over 25 years now, there has always been someone in space, orbiting our planet every 90 minutes aboard the International Space Station 🛰️. Now you can relive every day of this incredible journey thanks to Ben Feist and David Charney 🔗 issinrealtime.org
ISS in Real Time
Explore 25 years onboard the International Space Station.
issinrealtime.org
Announcing ISS in Real Time, a new multimedia project where you can play back every day of the past 25 years aboard the International Space Station. issinrealtime.org
ISS in Real Time
Explore 25 years onboard the International Space Station.
issinrealtime.org
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.
An awesomely fun project from my friend and long-time collaborator @davidcharney.bsky.social. Making the internet a better place, as always. alphabetmoon.org
Alphabet Moon
Explore the Moon! Type your name to see how it's written in the Moon's features, then dive into the fascinating science behind it.
alphabetmoon.org
Rule: If you're in a NASA video, even only for a second, and even if you look like a dork, share it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2HI...
Boot Camp for the Moon
YouTube video by NASA Johnson
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Great new film by NASA featuring some of the wonderfully talented people that I get to work with every day. We're working hard to prepare for our return to the Moon. This film shows just one aspect of those preparations. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoJO...
Preparing for Artemis: NASA's Geology Training for Lunar Exploration
YouTube video by NASA Johnson
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Extra points if you can spot me in the back of the science room. In the fall I was part of an Artemis III training simulation at NASA JSC. Today, NASA published a short article about it. science.nasa.gov/uncategorize...
How NASA is Using Virtual Reality to Prepare for Science on Moon - NASA Science
The Artemis III Geology Team, led by principal investigator Dr. Brett Denevi of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland,
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I’m looking forward to being on @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social’s The Current around 8.30 am EST tomorrow to talk about the significance of @firefly-aerospace.bsky.social’s mission & what this means for lunar exploration, including for 🇨🇦 @westernuresearch.bsky.social
Reuters@reuters.com · last yr.Firefly Aerospace landed its uncrewed Blue Ghost spacecraft, kicking off a two-week research mission as a handful of private firms compete in a global moon race reut.rs/3FdP2Ef
ISS spacewalk currently underway. Suni Williams just surpassed Peggy Whitson's record for most spacewalk hours completed by a woman. Incredible. Meanwhile the press:
Looking Back on 2019, The Year My Life Changed This latest blog post tells the story of my first full-time year at NASA. benfeist.com/posts/airt-a... Being given a chance to work at NASA on meaningful work was a dream come true. I hope you all enjoy it.
Looking Back on 2019, The Year My Life Changed | Ben Feist
In 2019, three major projects came together: Apollo in Real Time for Apollo 11, the Apollo 11 IMAX documentary, and the restoration of NASA’s Apollo Mission Control room. Here I talk about the conflue...
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Apollo 17 has just gone behind the moon and is about to shoot some 16mm film of what they see. Landing tomorrow. Follow along live: apolloinrealtime.org/17/
Apollo 17 in Real Time
A real-time interactive journey through the last landing on the Moon. Relive every moment as it occurred in 1972.
apolloinrealtime.org
Apollo 17 is on it's way to the moon exactly 52 years ago. Follow along (as is tradition at this point): apolloinrealtime.org/17/ #apollo #nasa
Apollo 17 in Real Time
A real-time interactive journey through the last landing on the Moon. Relive every moment as it occurred in 1972.
apolloinrealtime.org
Work on ISS in Real Time continues. I have processed the ISS space-to-ground comm back to 2019 and continuing backwards. Stats so far: Days transcribed: 1,169 of 2,417 Word count so far: 14,408,409 Per S/G channel: 1: 5,103,572 2: 6,435,531 3: 2,146,940 4: 722,366 #spacestation #iss #space #nasa
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.
Wrapped up a fantastic week at the NASA Johnson Space Center with a dry run of the #Artemis III impact cratering training activities #ToTheMoon #ImpactCraters
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.
If you need to get your mind on something else for a few thousand hours, check out Apollo in Real Time: apolloinrealtime.org
Apollo in Real Time
A real-time interactive journey through the Apollo missions. Relive every moment as it occurred.
apolloinrealtime.org
