Let’s have some fun – who is on the International Space Station?

Since I was small, I have been fascinated by space. One of my earliest memories is sitting up with my mam and dad to watch an Apollo moon landing on a creaky old black and white television. It wasn’t Apollo 11. I’m not quite that old. As an exercise, let’s see whether we can find out who is on the ISS, and present that data on a web page. We’ll need to refer to some of the stuff we learned about in the last chapter to accomplish this; Chapter 6, PowerShell and Files – Reading, Writing, and Manipulating Data, as well as what we’ve learned in this chapter. We’re not going to walk through it – try and accomplish this on your own. There are lots of ways to do this, and I’ve put my solution in the answers. Here are some hints though.

Activity

We can break this down into two tasks:

Task 1 – use an API to find out who is on the ISS,...