Boing Boing: NASA partners with Internet Archive to put space archives online

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Support Bloggers' Rights! HOWTO: Get a link posted to Boing Boing Boing Boing Mobile powered by Winksite Fark rules! This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution. Boing Boing is a trademark of Happy Mutants LLC in the United States [and other countries]. Stats (About our stats) defeat censorware Policies Our first five years' worth of posts in one file	View a recent day: August 22 \| August 21 \| August 20 \| previous days \| by month and year Wednesday, August 22, 2007 NASA partners with Internet Archive to put space archives online 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). posted by Xeni Jardin at 09:05:23 AM permalink \| Other blogs' comments View a recent day: August 22, 2007 \| August 21, 2007 \| August 20, 2007 \| August 19, 2007 \| August 18, 2007 \| August 17, 2007 \| August 16, 2007 \| previous days \| all BB archives by month and year Email this entry to: Your email address: Message (optional):	Boing Boing Sponsored by: Your Text Ad Here Get BB by email: