Whoisinspace.com/

Egg-Man 127 points 78 comments September 17, 2026
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feraloink

This is better than the Magic 8-ball. I DO like the visuals after clicking the Magic 8-ball though!

darknavi

> WHO IS IN SPACE is a project created by Destin Sandlin of Smarter Every Day and Geoff Barrett. Neat. Destin has a great talk that he gave to/at NASA about Artemis a few years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoJsPvmFixU

bobson_dugnutt5

Lai Ka-Ying. Nominative determinism!

hamdingers

Reminds me of the original: https://www.howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com/

zatkin

This website is unusable without closing out advertisements upon advertisements...

wildzzz

Those SpaceX suit photos look dumb. I very much prefer the traditional look of the Russian and Chinese crew photos.

ChrisArchitect

Anyone else read this as WHOIS in space? Was ready to find out which TLDs had Galactic Coordinates for contact details

reynard_le_faux

We’re all in space bro

bcorigliano

A good concept, I like it! But pleas make ads less invasive. I understand we all need to pay our bills, but that shouldn't interfere with the user experience. Besides that, I didn't know there were so many guys in space as we speak!

tlofreso

The adsense on this site annoys me. It's run by Dustin from Smarter Every Day (at least it was in 2023 https://x.com/smartereveryday/status/1631364605426511872 ). In the past, the site did not serve ads.

actionfromafar

The helmet portraits look goofy as hell.

zekejohn

not enough ads, i could almost see the content

bjourne

Call me crazy... but there's something about their faces. Almost like all of them are brothers and sisters. Creepy in a way.

sqquima

Who is in space? Well, Tim Curry of course!

ldkge

I guess we’re doxxing people now

mariusseufzer

Didn’t know humans are spending that much time in space, over a year wow! I guess they need to workout daily to keep the muscles intact?

walrus01

whois in space? what about RDAP in space? https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9082/

ligarota

Whole website for an ad btw

stephenhuey

Safari on MacBook Pro sees the time text wrapping in such a way that when the time is pushed to the next line, it literally overlaps partly with the "Total Time in space" label. The time is halfway up the letters of the label. And these are the biggest ads I've seen obscuring a webpage in a very long time!

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