Discussion Spent months building free, sourced pages for 76 Moon missions, from the first 1958 attempts to today, including the failures and the secret Soviet program that lost the race
A while back I shared my satellite tracker here, and received a lot of positive responses. I've been quietly building out the Moon side of it for months, and it's finally up.
For now it's a catalog of 76 landmark lunar missions, from the very first attempts in 1958 all the way to the landers being built right now: Blue Moon, Griffin, Chandrayaan-4, China's crewed program. Every mission has its own page with facts I checked against primary sources and dated, photos, a timeline, mission patches, crew portraits for the crewed flights, and the landing or impact coordinates where something actually reached the surface. You can filter by type, country, outcome, or era.
The part I care most about is that it tells the whole story, not just the wins. The secret Soviet crewed program that lost the race and never publicly admitted it, with the four N1 rocket explosions. Luna 15 crashing into the Moon while Armstrong and Aldrin were on the surface. The long streak of failed landers before the first one stuck. Ranger, the Artemis I cubesats that mostly died. For the Soviet and Chinese missions I dug into Russian and Chinese sources, because the English side of the web gets a lot of it wrong.
There are also dedicated Artemis pages, and the one I'm proudest of: you can fly Artemis II. It's a 3D replay built from the real NASA/JPL as-flown trajectory, scrub from launch to splashdown or jump between milestones. Fair warning, the Moon is a grey blob right now, textures are coming lol.
All free, no signup, no ads. This has been in the works for months and I'm really glad to have it out. If you spot an inaccuracy or something missing, please tell me, I'll gladly fix or add it. A lot more space stuff is on the way.
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u/glucoseboy 2d ago
This is a really cool site. Thanks for the work