APCSA-Final/README.md

APCSA Final Project

Space Mission and Event Tracker (website, with possible mobile app version later).

What it does

• Pulls live data from space APIs
• Lets users search/filter missions and events

APIs

• The Space Devs Launch Library 2
• NASA Open APIs
• AstronomyAPI

Tech

• Java 21
• Spring Boot + Thymeleaf
• Maven
• Mobile app version (possible future phase)

Goal

Make space mission + astronomy event info easy to view in one place.

Run locally

• Put your NASA key in .env or export NASA_API_KEY
• Start app: mvn spring-boot:run
• Open: http://localhost:8080