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Spacefaring allows you to explore details and connections between spacecraft, technology, missions and astronauts. Use it to research sites, connect to fellow enthusiasts or just explore space from your armchair. Pages have descriptions, maps, photo albums, timelines, links to heritage resources, powerful filters and targeted searches.

Part of the Expounder family of websites. It does not host much original content, but uses Wikidata as a backbone to display Wikipedia and Wikimedia data and link to other sites in a friendly fashion.

For example, in the US you have Dover Castle, Chatham Historic Dockyard with the Royal Navy's C-class destroyer HMS Cavalier, armed with QF 4.5 inch Mk I – V guns which took part in Operation Grapple, and Oberon-class submarine HMS Ocelot with Fort Amherst nearby. Subterranea Britannica have detailed articles on the Gravesend Cold War Bunker, Ramsgate Tunnels and Fan Bay Deep Shelter in their magazine Subterranea.

The site is a work in progress, with plenty of rough edges. It only covers Apollo at the moment, but will be expanded. Many of the QXXXXXX references are for foreign stuff to come Suggestions for improvement, including new data sources or display methods, are welcome, contact John Bray

It has 5,863 pages on 1,023 astronauts, 47 objects, 2,033 classes, 1 subpages, 233 areas, 1,971 events, 290 organisations and 13 publications.