Data Vis & Informatics Software Engineer and Historian at NASA JSC. Creator of ApolloInRealtime.org. @benfeist@astrodon.social, @benfeist.bsky.social
Joined April 2009
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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…
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Last week it was my pleasure to give a public talk for the NASA History Office about ISS in Real Time, a side project I made with @dwcharn. It's on youtube if you missed it.
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On March 25th at noon ET I'll be giving a public, online talk for the @NASAhistory NASA History Office about ISS in Real Time, a project that @dwcharn and I made last year. Everyone is welcome!
RSVP at the link.
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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/
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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.
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Ben Feist retweeted
14 Nov 2025
Here's flight director Gerry Griffin in mission control responding to the actual #scetoaux moment from Apollo 12, 56 years ago today, when the spacecraft was struck by lightning. 🌩️⚡️
I synchronised the raw 16mm footage to the flight loops as part of preparation for the still unreleased "Apollo 12 in Real Time" site.
@nasa @BenFeist #apolloinrealtime
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Emily Carney interviewed @dwcharn and I about ISS in Real Time for an article in The Space Review. Thanks, Emily!
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T-minus 4 hours until the 25th anniversary of sustained human presence in space.
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Ben Feist retweeted
1 Nov 2025
ISS（国際宇宙ステーション）の25年間におけるデータを検索できるサイト。これはすごい。便利で楽しい。
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.
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Ben Feist retweeted
28 Oct 2025
This is the coolest web project I've seen in a long time. Incredibly creative and well-executed interface.
Scrubbing to any date, any hour, and seeing the live mission log and hearing the mission audio as it happened is amazing. A
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
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Ben Feist retweeted
28 Oct 2025
I hoe the early days use Comic Sans
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Thanks @collectSPACE for the wonderful article. Exciting to see it being picked up by @arstechnica
27 Oct 2025
25 years, one website: ISS in Real Time captures quarter-century on space station arstechnica.com/space/2025/1…
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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
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I wrote up a "making of" post about what it took to build this project. benfeist.com/posts/iss-in-re…
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Apollo 13 “problem”, 55 years ago at 11pm ET tonight.
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Update on some of my work at NASA:
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Ben Feist retweeted
9 Jan 2025
Incredible work, Ben! Thanks for sharing the story of your journey!
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This article tells the story of my first full-time year at NASA.
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Being given a chance to work at NASA on meaningful work was a dream come true. I hope you all enjoy it.
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