The NASA Videographer of the Year awards for Production and Documentation are in!

Documentation Winners:

1st
Brian Karr and the Experimental Imaging Lab from KSC
Space Shuttle Day & Night
DOC-07

2nd
James Bilbrey, Sarah Milligan, & Alvin Lowery from MSFC
2010 Student Launch Initiative
DOC-16

3rd
Regan Geeseman & Robert Markowitz from JSC
STS-133 Shuttle Training Aircraft at Kennedy Space Center
DOC-24

Production Winners:

1st
Christopher Smith from GSFC
Inside Astrobiology: Danny Glavin
PROD-04

2nd
Michael Bibbo & Tom Shortridge from LARC
Composite Materials: Edison 2 VLC
PROD-01

3rd
Rob Lorkiewicz from LARC
Virginia Tech Lunabotics 2010
PROD-07

Update (03-03-2011): We are still in the process of moving NASAimages.org to our new data center. In the meantime access the entire NASA Images collection at the Internet Archive:

http://www.archive.org/details/nasa

NASAimages.org is down for scheduled maintenance and migration. We are currently moving our servers to a new data center. Service will be intermittently unavailable Tuesday March 1 1PM PT (2100GMT) through Wednesday March 2 5PM PT (0100GMT Thursday).

Thank you for your patience, and in the meantime enjoy The Mastery of Space:

The Mastery of Space traces the development of the United States man-in-space program Project Mercury, showing scenes of the flight of Freedom 7 and the orbital flight of Friendship 7 on February 20, 1962. Discusses briefly Project Gemini, Project Apollo, and the Saturn booster.

“NASA’s long-standing partnership with Internet Archive and this new one with Yahoo!’s Flickr provides an opportunity for the public to participate in the process of discovery,” said Debbie Rivera, lead for the NASA Images project at the agency’s headquarters in Washington. “In addition, the public can help the agency capture historical knowledge about missions and programs through this new resource and make it available for future generations.”

NASA on The Commons will make the NASA Images collection accessible to a wider audience while improving the information that accompanies these images with the help of the public.

Read more about NASA on The Commons @

The Flickr Blog | Welcome NASA to The Commons

What’s New at the Internet Archive | NASA on The Commons

The Atlantic | Old, Weird Tech: NASA on Flickr Commons Edition

ReadWriteWeb | NASA Teams Up With Flickr to Share Historic Image Collection

NASA Watch | Public Invited to Participate on Cool NASA Historical Project

CrunchGear | NASA Now Featured On Flickr Commons

Laughing Squid | NASA Joins The Commons Public Photography Archives on Flickr

Universe Today | NASA Crowdsources Historic Image Archive Data

CNBC |  NASA, Internet Archive and Flickr launch Historic Image Collection

Mashable | NASA Puts Historic Image Collections on Flickr

National Post | NASA Adds Archival Photos to Flickr

Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Trace NASA’s history in pictures via Flickr

Jalopnik | Get Your Vintage NASA On at The Flickr Commons

Hooked on History | NASA, Internet Archive and Flickr launch Historic Image Collection

ZDNet | Flickr gives NASA’s historical photos some distribution

Resource Shelf | NASA Imagery Added to The Commons: Internet Archive, NASA, and Flickr Launch Historic Image Collection

Press Release

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Sonja Alexander
Headquarters, Washington Aug. 30, 2010
202-358-1761
sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov

Jon Hornstein
Internet Archive, San Francisco
415-561-6767
hornstein@archive.org

Jason Khoury
Yahoo!, Sunnyvale, Calif.
408-368-3753
jkhoury@yahoo-inc.com

RELEASE: 10-186

NASA, INTERNET ARCHIVE AND FLICKR LAUNCH HISTORIC IMAGE COLLECTION

WASHINGTON — Three compilations of images from more than half a century of NASA history are available for comment on a section of the photo-sharing site Flickr known as The Commons.

Visitors to NASA on The Commons can help tell the photos’ story by adding tags, or keywords, to the images to identify objects and people. In addition, viewers can communicate with other visitors by sharing comments. These contributions will help make the images easier to find online and add insight about NASA’s history.

The capability to interact with these already-public photos is the result of a partnership between NASA, Flickr from Yahoo! in Sunnyvale, Calif., and Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library based in San Francisco.

Three sets of photos share a common theme of NASA beginnings. The “Launch and Takeoff” set captures iconic spacecraft and aircraft taking flight. “Building NASA” spotlights ground-breaking events and the construction of some of NASA’s one-of-a-kind facilities. The “Center Namesakes” set features photos of the founders and figureheads of NASA’s 10 field centers. To view NASA on The Commons images, visit:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasacommons

“NASA’s long-standing partnership with Internet Archive and this new one with Yahoo!’s Flickr provides an opportunity for the public to participate in the process of discovery,” said Debbie Rivera, lead for the NASA Images project at the agency’s headquarters in Washington. “In addition, the public can help the agency capture historical knowledge about missions and programs through this new resource and make it available for future generations.”

The Commons was launched with the Library of Congress to increase access to publicly-held photography collections and provide a way for the public to contribute information and knowledge.

“NASA on The Commons is bringing literally out-of-these-world images to Flickr,” said Douglas Alexander, general manager of Flickr. “We are thrilled to be working with NASA to offer such a rich archive and provide amazing insight into this country’s space program and its early beginnings.”

As the project leader, the New Media Innovation Team at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., enlisted the help of NASA photography and history experts to compile the three image sets for The Commons. The group will continue to create and release new photo sets that highlight different elements, themes or achievements.

Through a competitive process, NASA selected the Internet Archive in 2007 to organize a comprehensive online compilation of the agency’s vast collection of photographs, historic film and video on the NASA Images website. Launched in 2008, NASAimages.org provides hundreds of thousands of images and thousands of hours of video, HD video and audio content available free to the public for download.

For more information and to see the image collection, visit:

http://www.nasaimages.org

For more information about NASA and agency programs, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov

For more information about Internet Archive, visit:

http://www.archive.org

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Apollo 17: On the Shoulders of Giants

Update: 5 more videos added to the JSC Apollo Video Collection, including:

• An introduction, from Andy Astronaut, on the hazards Apollo astronauts will encounter in there Extravehicular Mobility Units (1966).
• A review of the Apollo 9 mission as narrated by Astronaut Rusty Schweickart (1969).
• the planning of a lunar mission with trajectories and physical capabilities that define these trajectories (1967).
• A discussion on the groundwork conducted by JSC’s Mission Planning and Analysis Division in perfecting lunar rendezvous techniques (1968).
• An explanation of the geometry of return trajectory and reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere by the Apollo spacecraft (1968).

Johnson Space Center Apollo Video Collection

Updates:

• 7/15/10 – 100 new images added to Johnson Space Center Media Archive.
• 7/16/10 – 90 new images added to Johnson Space Center Media Archive.
• 7/27/10 – We now have 843 images in the JSC Media Archive.
• 8/16/10 – 931 images in the JSC Media Archive.

Johnson Space Center Media Archive Highlights

Update (7/29): You should now be able to download most high-resolution images directly from nasaimages.org without any problems.  There are still some instances where it is not working.  We are working to resolve them, and we will keep you updated.  If you encounter a case where you are unable to download a high-resolution file please see below for directions on downloading high-resolution images from archive.org.  Thank you for your patience!

We have run into some issues with downloading high-resolution images directly from nasaimages.org.  We are working on getting this fixed, but in the mean-time here’s a work around:

1. Navigate to the image you are interested in downloading a Hi-Res copy of.
2. Look in the meta-data (text located in the left hand column) for the field titled ‘Source’.
3. Follow the link to the item page on archive.org.
4. Here you will be able to download the original High-Resolution file.

Thank you for your patience as we work to fix this issue.  If you are experiencing any related issues or are having trouble downloading the Hi-Res file from archive.org, please let us know in the comments or by emailing info@nasaimages.org.

Apollo Images from the Johnson Space Center Media Archive

June has been involved with NASA for years.  She has attended shuttle launches, opened the Kids Space Museum at the Johnson Space Center, and helped NASA celebrate the 40th anniversary of Apollo. She has been a long time supporter of all things NASA. June takes this opportunity to share some of her dearest memories of her relationship with the space agency:

“’…There’s a new sunrise in space every hour and a half – so the song would be very appropriate.’ It was astronaut Ken Reightler speaking in response to my suggestion that my fathers song ‘The World is Waiting for the Sunrise’ would be a good wake up tune for the astronauts on the upcoming shuttle flight Columbia. We played the Les Paul and Mary Ford version of the song just after 2 a.m. On October 27, 1992. I was there in the mission control viewing room and listened to the music fill the sky. My father would have loved it. My eyes filled with tears…”

“…Bill Mcarthur and I shared some phone calls during his time on the ISS in 2005. On December 16, I went to JPL for a video conference. We sent films and photos and a poster of me in my space suit from ‘Lost In Space’ which he had posted on the wall of the ISS. He said I was the first pin-up in outerspace!”

Check out June Lockhart: The NASA Diaries at nasaimages.org

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June Lockhart was born in New York in 1925 and began her career at the age of eight, appearing at the Metropolitan Opera House. At twelve she played Belinda Cratchet in the film ‘A Christmas Carol’. After significant roles in many now classic films, she moved on to TV. June starred in the ‘Lassie’ series for six years, ‘Lost In Space’ for three years and ‘Petticoat Junction’ for two years, and had an ongoing part for several years in ‘General Hospital’.