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

Posted: November 3, 2022

Estimated read time: 1 minutes

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(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

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