Via Astra is a space modpack, the predecessor or revived version of the old but legendary modpack from technic, Steve's Galaxy. The only difference is that its not an apocaltypic world and there's a lot of changes that undergoed but still feels like you were playing the old one but with the modern release of 1.20.1 and newer modern mods have been added.
Some of the older mods you might remember from Steve's Galaxy that are in Via Astra are that follows:
-Pam's Harvestcraft (and its addon), which adds new vegetation and food recipes to the game.
-Farmer's Delight (and its addon - Astra Delight), which adds even a ton of more food to your world and new resources so you are able to cook them a new way than just the casual furnaces.
-Biome's O' Plenty which adds a vast variety of new biomes you might see in the real world or reality.
-Alex's Caves adds four new biomes you can explore, with one of them containing the formidable nukes and submarines.
-Yung's Bridges & Mineshafts which heavily adds world generated bridges aorund your minecraft world that connects rivers for example and modifies mineshafts with new goodies and environments
-Towns and Towers are here too! Adds randomly world generated towers with loot and new or abandoned towns to search.
-Aquaculture 2 which goes super well with farmers delights and pam's mods as it adds sea food to the menu and new sea creatures to the game.
-In addition, to Aquamirae mod which adds new boss fights into the seas to make it more terrifying and more loot to the shipwrecks with the addition of a boss fight.
It also contains the oldest tech mods you could find in Steve's Galaxy such as:
-Mekanism (Ores, Generators, Tools) which adds new ores to the game, adds new generators to help you obtain those ores and even more tools which will go well with the next mod....
-Tinkers Construct which allows you to interact with any vanilla and modded ores and you are able to smelt them to make castings for either a handle, connecters or heads of tools so you may make those new hard earned ores into newer tools like hammers and even weapons.
-Applied Energestics 2 which this mod changes how we store and automate things, now we can craft automatically and store resources with the items presented in this mod.
-SecurityCraft 2 which now secures your world in a whole new level with key cards, passcodes, lasers, cameras, and of course automation with clearance.
-Much newer mods like Create is there along with its addon, which is the engineering of automation, craft things to a whole new different level.
Some of the other mods that include life are here too:
-Alex's Mobs adds 85 new mobs to minercraft for example bears, elephants, tigers, leopards and etc.
-Naturalist and Ecologics adds the smallest of critters to the world such as snails and coconut crabs.
To end it off, we have some mods to help you out in your adventuring like Traveler's Backpack adds more storage to your inventory and portable crafting table/sleeping bag. There is also The One Probe mod which is a predecessor to Waila/Hwlya.
I'd like to give my thanks to my 2 friends who also helped in the testing of the modpack, who are: MastergamingJava and Gyshdu