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Subject: NASA and Internet Archive Launch Centralized Resource for Images

NASA and Internet Archive Launch Centralized Resource for Images

NASA and Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library based in San Francisco, made available the most comprehensive compilation ever of NASA's vast collection of photographs, historic film and video Thursday. Located at http://www.nasaimages.org the Internet site combines for the first time 21 major NASA imagery collections into a single, searchable online resource. A link to the Web site will appear on the http://www.nasa.gov home page.

The Web site launch is the first step in a five-year partnership that will add millions of images and thousands of hours of video and audio content,with enhanced search and viewing capabilities, and new user features on acontinuing basis. Over time, integration of www.nasaimages.org with www.nasa.gov will become more seamless and comprehensive.

"This partnership with Internet Archive enables NASA to provide the American public with access to its vast collection of imagery from one searchable source, unlocking a new treasure trove of discoveries for students, historians, enthusiasts and researchers," said NASA Deputy Administrator Shana Dale. "This new resource also will enable the agency to digitize and preserve historical content now not available on the Internet for future
generations."

Through a competitive process, NASA selected Internet Archive to manage the NASA Images Web site under a non-exclusive Space Act agreement, signed in July 2007. The five-year project is at no cost to the taxpayer and the images are free to the public.

"NASA's media is an incredibly important and valuable national asset. It is a tremendous honor for the Internet Archive to be NASA's partner in this project," says Brewster Kahle, founder of Internet Archive. "We are excited to mark this first step in a long-term collaboration to create a rich and growing public resource."

The content of the Web site covers all the diverse activities of America's space program, including imagery from the Apollo moon missions, Hubble Space Telescope views of the universe and experimental aircraft past and present. Keyword searching is available with easy-to-use resources for teachers and students.

Internet Archive is developing the NASA Images project using software donated by Luna Imaging Inc. of Los Angeles and with the generous support of the Kahle-Austin Foundation of San Francisco.

Blast, the page doesn't load for me. :(
» randomjunk on 2008-07-25 01:32:47

fukin sweet dood. Those photos of the astronauts walking on the fucking moon are so awesome. I always thought that they should be more readily available. Especially the video where they drop a hammer and a feather on the moon and they hit the ground at the same time. PRICELESS, and yet who sees it?!?!?

I guess I'll go to the archive and see if they have these things on there. For now it's 3:14 am and I have to finish my work. ciao.
» Zanzibar on 2008-07-25 03:16:23

Trebek: This is the sound a doggy makes. *buzz* Mr Connery

Connery: Moo.

Trebek: No.

Connery: Well that's the sound your mother made last night! Hahaha!

Trebek: No! Good lord! We would have accepted "bow wow" or "ruff"

Connery: Ohhh, rough, just the way your mother likes it, Trebek!

» ThisCharmingMan on 2008-07-27 11:45:54

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