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NASA to Digitize its 50 Years of Photos and Films

Posted by samzenpus on from the a-lot-of-scanning dept.

Lucas123 writes "Putting the images and film online will allow NASA to more easily share and showcase its achievements, including photos from its Mars rover missions and from its manned and unmanned voyages to the Moon and beyond, according to Computerworld's Todd Weiss. Much of NASA's archived photos and film is currently divided up into more than 20 different imagery categories, making it hard to find specific images or archives unless a user knows exactly where it is. "Much of what is in the collection may be surprising when it is released," according to NASA spokesman Bob Jacobs."

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  1. So? We finally get to see... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Will we FINALLY see the various photos of Apollo 11 where you can see the wires holding up "the Earth" (cardboard cutout) and the accidentally left-in sea shells sitting in the "moon dust" Ooops
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  2. Open your eyes. Ain't NASA that's the black hole by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    NASA's annual budget is NOTHING compared to what this country spends each MONTH on entitlement programs. Our annual Federal budget is now approaching $1,000,000,000,000 (that's TRILLION) spent every year on government welfare assistance, social security, medic/aid/are, and various other socialized entitlement programs and low-income handouts. And where do you think this money comes from? Well, as a matter of fact, Democrats have been CUTTING FUNDS from science for decades to pay for their promises! For example, NANCY PELOSI herself voted in 1993 with a winning Democrat majority to cut funding for the Supercollider and the U.S. Space Station, and after she and the Democrat majority killed these projects (the Supercollider was partially built, by the way), do you presume they gave the funds back to the taxpayers then? LOL, of course not. NO. Upon killing the Supercollider, she and her colleagues dispensed its funds out to NON-TAXPAYERS, as well as a hodgepodge of other 'needy' pograms, like the pioneering "International Museum for Women at Pier 26", and the groundbreaking "Family Violence Prevention Fund", and the life-changing 'Bloomingdales Filipino Cultural Center' and the universally-appealling "San Francisco HIV/AIDS Program" and "Bay Area Youth Prevention [sic] Network", and the irreplaceable 'PG&E Hunters Point Wastewater Improvement Project', and......... ah -- the EPA!

    And that was all in one day!

    With people like NANCY PELOSI thrusting cash into fiduciary BLACK HOLES, it's no wonder then why there's nothing left for pioneering research on real ones, leading to discoveries which boggle and amaze us all. With all they've promised, it's just not feasible for these pathetic politicians to simply take money from the rich and give to the poor --- they need MORE! So they take money from science and technology, give it to bums and meth heads, and tell the rest of us to pay up and screw off. Pffft. What ever happened to Democrats like JFK, who actually cared about science? Pioneering is the American spirit, this is WHAT WE DO.

    Hate him all you want, but GW Bush has been boosting NASA spending every year he's been in office, reversing an inflation-adjusted decline during the Clinton years. We'll see how long that lasts after urban Americans vote the Clinton's back into office in '08.