Civic hacking NASA (astronomy picture of the day)

Building a space photo of the day page using NASA's astronomy picture of the day API.

By Luke Fretwell ยท 03 Nov 2022

(This post is part of an ongoing series documenting adventures in father-son civic hacking.)

README

We built a space photo of the day page using the astronomy picture of the day API provided by NASA. This includes:

  • Space photo or video, updated daily
  • Title and description of the photo/video

Data

Data used for this project:

Kudos

Big kudos to NASA for:

  • Maintaining a public repository of the data.

Demo

Photo of the day:

Screenshot of USA.GovFresh space photo of the day page

Feedback

Share your feedback on the USA.GovFresh repo.