Preserving space masterpieces

W. Rockmacher — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:55:30 GMT

Pictures are nice - but you should also mention spacesounds.com which has the audio records of the entire US space program from Mercury through the most recent shuttle missions. Check it out...

www.spacesounds.com

Preserving space masterpieces

Andy Motherway, Minneapolis, MN — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:32:24 GMT

JEEZ! It is about time!!!

Man, anyone who has ever tried to find a particular image or video through NASA's labyrinth of sites is really going to appreciate this effort.

Preserving space masterpieces

Dennis McClain-Furmanski, Dalworthington Gardens, Texas — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:33:12 GMT

A particularly engaging piece of space history no longer exists in its original form, but thanks to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine we can still see it. In 1988, before most people had ever heard of the Internet, Marshall Spaceflight Center started a stand-alone electronic library called NASA Spacelink BBS. It truly was a Bulletin Board System, as you had to dial into it to connect. In its early form, it ran on an Apple II. As more information was made available to it coming from MS-DOS machines, they added a transputer board, makng it capable of reading and writing DOS disks from the Apple. Over the years it moved to new equipment, and got its own URL when it finally did join the net http://spacelink.nasa.gov That same URL can be used in the Wayback Machine to see the entire history of Spacelink as it evolved. In 2001, NASA gave a long overdue recognition award to the Spacelink team
http://www.msfc.nasa.gov/news/news/releases/2001/01-074.html . Spacelink is finally closing its original doors this year as it migrates its content to the main NASA web site at www.nasa.gov` The spirit of Spacelink lives on, keeping company now with all the other spectacular results provided by the space programs.

Preserving space masterpieces

Cynthia Joffrion, Houston, Texas — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 04:58:33 GMT

This is a wonderful project.