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+Things in Space
+===============
+
+Stuff in Space is a realtime 3D map of objects in Earth orbit, visualized using WebGL. The
+current version is available live at [http://stuffin.space](http://stuffin.space).
+
+
+The website updates daily with orbit data from Space-Track.org and uses the excellent 
+[satellite.js](https://www.npmjs.com/package/satellite.js) Javascript library to
+calculate satellite positions.
+
+Author
+------
+
+Things in Space was originally written by James Yoder, in April 2015, an alumnus of FIRST
+Robotics Competition (FRC) Team 624 and an incoming Electrical and Computer Engineering
+freshman at the University of Texas, at Austin.
+
+Contributing
+------------
+
+To do...
+
+License
+-------
+
+Unspecified at this time.