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NASA Opens Space Image Library

Posted by Soulskill on from the pretty-pictures dept.

slatterz writes with an excerpt from a brief PC Authority article: "NASA is to make its huge collection of historic photographs, film and video available to the public for the first time. A partnership with the non-profit Internet Archive will see 21 major NASA imagery collections merged into a single searchable online resource. The NASA Images website is expected to go live this week. The content of the site covers all the diverse activities of America's space program, including imagery from the Apollo missions, Hubble Space Telescope views of the universe and experimental aircraft past and present." The site is working already, and it looks fantastic. Don't hesitate to share any interesting pictures or movies you find.

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  1. Enjoy your by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Roasted silica NASA. Slashdotted.

  2. Listen !! Get some GOOD articles or I'm OUTTA HERE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Capeesh ??

  3. an OT rant on FreeBSD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    OT but it's friday morning and I need to make an AC rant.

    Is it me, or is the whole FreeBSD project a clique of Dutch geeks who refuse to properly document the kernel lest easier access be made to the inner sanctum, combined with a bunch of half-witted hangers-on who lack imagination or development skill but know how to stroke ego?

    While Linux has its fair share of GPL zealots, from an engineering PoV I've always found I'm able to easily help and get help when working within kernel space. When it comes to FreeBSD, it's like I'm reducing the size of someone's member every time I gain a little knowledge.

    (Feel free to mod OT but I just wondered what others thought...)

  4. Re:Great use of tax payer money by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Well then, those young black men should just stop killing themselves. It has nothing to do with NASA.

  5. Re:Great use of tax payer money by rbanffy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Discounting the racist tones of your message, if any population's youth is really determined to kill itself, the government should step out of its way and let nature do its job.

    If those kids kill themselves before reproducing, any genetic tendency to aggression they had won't be passed to future generations. Unfortunately, it's expected that overly aggressive populations with high mortality rates in young ages will, given enough time, develop suitable mating behaviour that allows them to reproduce sooner.

    Evolution has its own agenda, you know.

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    http://www.dieblinkenlights.com