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This webpage is a brief overview of some of the online resources available to people researching the history of NASA's contributions to aeronautics and astronautics. Lists of databases, document collections, and our current journal subscriptions can be found elsewhere on this website.
All items are available at the Headquarters Library, except as noted. NASA Headquarters employees and contractors: call (358-0172) or email Library@hq.nasa.gov for information on borrowing or in-library use of any of these items. Members of the public, contact your Local Library for the availability of these items. NASA Headquarters employees can request additional materials or research on this topic. The Library welcomes your comments or suggestions about this webpage.
Copernica - Gallery of works from the NASA Art Program. Includes works by Robert McCall, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg and Jamie Wyeth. The works depict a wide range of subjects, from Space Shuttle launches to aeronautics research, Hubble Space Telescope and even virtual reality.
Great Images in NASA (GRIN) - Images of significant historical interest selected by the NASA History Office. Images are arranged by subject and NASA center and offered in a range of sizes.
Image Gallery, Dryden Flight Research Center - This archive contains digitized images, movies, and drawings of many of the unique research aircraft flown from the 1940s to the present at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center.
Image Gallery, Glenn Research Center - This collection is maintained by the GRC Public Affairs office and includes images of GRC's facilities, technology, aircraft, people and space flight operations support.
Johnson Space Center History Collection - A description of the physical collection, a searchable index, and links to many online historical NASA resources.
JSC Oral History Project - Transcripts are online, plus a database of the audio recordings. Participants include managers, engineers, technicians, doctors, astronauts, and other employees of NASA and aerospace contractors who served in key roles during the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, and Shuttle programs.
Kennedy Space Center Archives Electronic Documents - Mercury thru Skylab presskits and program directives.
Langley Research Center Multimedia Repository - A searchable database of photos, images, and movies documenting NASA and NACA research at Langley Research Center.
NASA Aeronautics and Space Database - There are two versions of NASA ASD: one is open to everyone on a nasa.gov computer. The other includes limited documents and requries a password. Both databases include documents from NASA and related agencies, meeting papers, journal articles, and videos. NASA Headquarters employees can contact the Library or CASI for help in using this database.
NASA History Books - Full-text NASA Special Publications, Historical Reports, Monographs in Aerospace History, and other space history documents posted by the NASA Headquarters History Office.
NASA History Office Topical Index - subject and alphabetical list of
topics in NASA and space history.
NASA History Office, Headquarters - Histories of everything from the Apollo
program to NACA to the X-33. Includes many electronic books.
NASA History Offices, other Centers - Many have
online documents, images, or databases.
NASA Scientific and Technical Information (STI) Program - Search for and
purchase NASA books, technical reports, and video tapes.
NASA Technical Report Server - The NTRS is a publicly accessible subset of the NASA Aeronautics and Space Database. Members of the public should use it to identify NASA reports and books. Some materials are available in full-text. To be complete you should also search the Glenn Technical Report Server and the Dryden Technical Report Server.
NIX (NASA Image eXchange) - Web-based search engine for simultaneously searching one or more of NASA's online image and photo collections. NIX searches databases of over 442,000 NASA images and links to another 250,000 images via the "Additional NASA Imagery" button.
Video Catalog, NASA Center for Aerospace Information - The videos listed have been developed by the NASA centers, covering Shuttle mission press conferences; fly-bys of planets; aircraft design, testing and performance; environmental pollution; lunar and planetary exploration; and many other categories related to manned and unmanned space exploration.
Air Force Historical Research Agency
U.S. Centennial of Flight
National Air and Space Museum
National Museum of the U.S. Air Force
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