Devlog 1 – Mission Control

I spent the last two hours turning the project into something that actually feels like a real mission control center. My original idea was to lean into a space theme, and that quickly snowballed into adding way more features than I had planned (as these things usually do).

While searching for APIs, I found an awesome one that tracks the International Space Station in real time. Of course, I had to add it. The website now shows the ISS’s live location on a map, so you can see exactly where it’s flying over Earth. Then I found another API that lists everyone currently in space, because if we’re building mission control, we should probably know who’s on the mission. Finally, I added launch data so you can keep up with upcoming and recent space missions.

The homepage is now set up like a proper Mission Control dashboard, and I’m really happy with how it turned out. Everything is connected and working together surprisingly well. There are still a few tiny bugs hiding in the code somewhere, but they’re nothing a little debugging can’t solve.