Ben Feist

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On March 25th at noon ET I'll be giving a public, online talk for the @NASAhistory NASA History Office about ISS in Real Time, a project that @dwcharn and I made last year. Everyone is welcome! RSVP at the link. lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/4xjb69z…

@classicalricky I’d love to do them all. Waiting for @UT_Dallas to release the remaining mission recordings.

@BenFeist as someone who loves the apollo missions, i have a question: are you gonna do all the apollo missions or just flights 11, 13, & 17?

@DJSnM Thanks so much. Yes, I've encountered this too. A television show that contains archival clips is claimed in its entirety. Google hasn't put the effort in to segment each edit into it's own entity. This broken system is "just let them sort it out" and is rarely correct.

Hi Ben I too am a fan of your work, it's practically the gold standard for archival footage restoration, you should be proud. To be clear, you don't need to rip footage from the blu-ray to get matched by content ID, I have had video which pre-dated the documentary which found itself matched, and every time I've been able to get it cleared as a bad match. ContentID is specifically engineered to see similarities in video even if there's changes to the colour and framing, so footage from public sources gets matched regularly. I'm lucky enough to be able to challenge bad matches. Youtube provides this capability to media companies and there's very little incentive for them to exercise any nuance.

When I saw that professional filmmakers were going to remaster NASA's public domain footage from Apollo, I knew in the back of my mind that it would makes it hard for me to use anything that looked like that footage.

@DJSnM I've had my fair share of YT copyright strikes on apolloinrealtime.org, including a French TV station who claimed their historical Apollo coverage was copyrighted essentially blocking the entire mission pool feeds that originated from NASA. Ridiculous. It needs to be fixed.

@DJSnM If you want to use the original raw footage, the Apollo 11 film team generously donated the raw scans back to the National Archives. They have been made publicly available here: catalog.archives.gov/id/133360601

@csciria Yes, but it’s unclear what data will be made public and how quickly. It might have to be a recap rather than live event.

@BenFeist Ben, any plans for Artemis next year? I loved your Apollo 11 site and doing something for Artemis would be very cool.

ISS in Real Time has been updated with comm, photos, articles, and spacecraft details. We have comm as recent as Monday this week! issinrealtime.org

The crew onboard the ISS commemorated the 25th anniversary of having people onboard with a radio communication. Click the link to listen. It was during the US government shutdown, so NASA has just released the mission data that includes the onboard event. issinrealtime.org/2025-11-02T10:…

Here's flight director Gerry Griffin in mission control responding to the actual #scetoaux moment from Apollo 12, 56 years ago today, when the spacecraft was struck by lightning. 🌩️⚡️ I synchronised the raw 16mm footage to the flight loops as part of preparation for the still unreleased "Apollo 12 in Real Time" site. @nasa @BenFeist #apolloinrealtime

Emily Carney interviewed @dwcharn and I about ISS in Real Time for an article in The Space Review. Thanks, Emily! thespacereview.com/article/5092/1

T-minus 4 hours until the 25th anniversary of sustained human presence in space. issinrealtime.org

ISS（国際宇宙ステーション）の25年間におけるデータを検索できるサイト。これはすごい。便利で楽しい。

@MarcusHouse Thanks Marcus! I enjoy your work too. 🚀

Wow... this is super awesome.

@enzovit0 If they go to the space station, yes

@BenFeist Will Axiom flights be added?

Announcing ISS in Real Time, a new multimedia project where you can play back every day of the past 25 years aboard the International Space Station. issinrealtime.org

This is the coolest web project I've seen in a long time. Incredibly creative and well-executed interface. Scrubbing to any date, any hour, and seeing the live mission log and hearing the mission audio as it happened is amazing. A+

@JayBigGuy10 Sometimes. The timing can be imperfect with the current transcription solution. Working on it.

@BenFeist Hmm, seems like when a new utterance starts, it cuts off the previous one even its still playing

@BenFeist I hoe the early days use Comic Sans

@DJSnM Ha! Space faxes