NASA partners with Internet Archive to put space archives online

By at 9:05 am Wednesday, Aug 22


Rick Prelinger of Archive.org tells BoingBoing,

NASA has chosen the Internet Archive to build a giant, free, online collection of still and moving images. The IA will soon begin digitizing NASA's vast collections, which include material from aeronautical and rocketry experiments sponsored by the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics in the 1920s.

Link to a CNET News piece, but note that CNET gets one thing wrong -- this agreement is nonexclusive, as agreements with government agencies ought to be.

Image: The Tadpole Galaxy, eyeballed with the Hubble telescope (courtesy NASA).

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