posted 10-27-2025 08:00 AM               

25 years, one website: 'ISS in Real Time' captures quarter-century on space station

With the milestone just days away, you are likely to hear this week that there has now been a continuous human presence on the International Space Station (ISS) for the past 25 years. But what does that quarter of a century actually encompass?

If only there was a way to see, hear and experience each of those 9,131 days.

posted 03-20-2026 12:55 PM               

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 NASA mission data — photos, space to ground audio, videos, and articles — and synchronizes them into a seamless chronological experience, allowing users to replay any moment in the International Space Station's 25-plus-year history. Feist will discuss the process of acquiring and wrangling the massive datasets involved, indexing the archive, and creating an intuitive user interface.