Searchable archive collects 333 hours of astronaut Q&A footage

A new web project, Ask an Astronaut, aggregates 333 hours of question-and-answer footage with astronauts into a single searchable archive hosted at issinrealtime.org. The collection pulls together recordings of crew members fielding questions about life aboard the International Space Station and related spaceflight topics, turning scattered interview material into a queryable resource.

For researchers, educators, and space enthusiasts, the value is in indexing rather than novelty: the underlying footage already existed, but consolidating it under a common interface makes specific answers findable without scrubbing through hours of unrelated content. The site sits alongside ISS Mimic and related amateur-built tools that surface NASA telemetry and media for public use.