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r/Spaceexploration

39.1K members. The best post we have captured here reached 318 upvotes, which works out to 8 per 1,000 members.

8peak upvotes per 1,000 members
39.1Kmembers
318best post
114most comments
100posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

53% 31% 11%
Link 53% Image 31% Video 11% Gallery 3% Text 1% Question 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

🧑‍🔬 Science Missions 6 📖 History 3 🧑‍🚀 Crewed Missions 2 🚀 Rocket Launches 1 ⚙️ Space Engineering 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

How uncomfortable could the Soviet LK lunar lander have been?

↑ 318 💬 61 gallery 2026

Strange Sounds Recorded On Mars.

↑ 285 💬 44 video 2021

DAVINCI Mission To Take the Plunge Through Massive Atmosphere of Venus

↑ 278 💬 24 link 2022

1992, Mae Jemison, the first African American Woman to Space

↑ 258 💬 7 image 2022

1983, The first man-made object to leave the central Solar System

↑ 254 💬 6 image 2022

'Titan is actually a very reasonable destination for humans': Scientists start mapping out crewed mission to huge Saturn moon

↑ 191 💬 114 link 2026

1965, The first person to walk in Space

↑ 187 💬 7 image 2022

Virgin Galactic announced that the flight window for the next rocket-powered test flight of its SpaceShipTwo Unity opens July 11, pending weather and…

↑ 174 💬 2 video 2021

Close-up look on the combustion exhaust flame at the nozzle exit

↑ 167 💬 6 video 2021

“Newer, nimbler, faster:” Venus probe will search for signs of life in clouds of sulfuric acid

↑ 163 💬 1 link 2021

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/Spaceexploration, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.