Simon Willison’s Weblog

Spacelog: space exploration stories from the original transcripts. The product of the most recent /dev/fort outing—a beautiful, web-native interface for browsing the NASA transcripts from the Apollo 13 and Mercury 6 missions (more to come). Every key moment has a URL. 10th December 2010, 10:07 am

Stellarium. Really lovely open source planetarium application, for Linux, OS X and Windows. 7th July 2009, 12:37 am

Interview @MarsPhoenix (via) “For over a year, Veronica McGregor has been Twittering from Mars.”—an interview with the Twitter voice of the Mars Phoenix lander. 11th November 2008, 12:17 pm

Preparing to rescue Hubble. The Big Picture has pictures of the preparations for next month’s Space Shuttle Atlantis mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope for the last time, including a photo of astronauts practicing underwater. 1st September 2008, 1:54 pm