July 30, 2008

50 Years of NASA images on the web

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http://www.nasaimages.org

Together with the Internet Archive, NASA has posted 50 years of Photos, audio and other Images of its space program.  I looked through it and these pictures are amazing.  Its really wonderful that people can see these great and historic images.  Here is an explanation from the site about the project.

“NASA Images is a service of Internet Archive ( www.archive.org ), a non-profit library, to offer public access to NASA’s images, videos and audio collections. NASA Images is constantly growing with the addition of current media from NASA as well as newly digitized media from the archives of the NASA Centers.

The goal of NASA Images is to increase our understanding of the earth, our solar system and the universe beyond in order to benefit humanity.

Support NASA Images
NASA and Internet Archive entered into a Space Act Agreement in 2007 to create this service, but the Internet Archive receives no financial support from NASA. The project is currently funded through a grant from the Kahle-Austin Foundation. We are actively looking for additional financial support in the form of grants and sponsorships. If your organization would like to support this important project, we want to hear from you. Please contact us at info@nasaimages.org . “

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