NASA Information Resources

This webpage is a brief overview of some of the online resources available to people who are curious about what NASA is doing today. 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.


Bibliographies
Websites

Bibliographies

  • Aerospace Dictionaries
  • American Manned Spacecraft Accidents
  • Astronaut Biographies
  • Benefits of Space Exploration
  • Constellation Program
  • Hubble Space Telescope
  • International Cooperation in Space
  • International Space Station
  • Launch Schedules and Mission Chronologies
  • Legislative Research and Space Law
  • Public Opinion of the American Space Program

Websites

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.

NASA Headquarters FOIA Office

NASA Headquarters Information Center - Ask your questions here.

NASA History Office, Headquarters - Histories of everything from the Apollo program to NACA to the X-33. Includes many electronic books.

NASA Homepage - Catch the latest news and start your exploration of America's space agency here by clicking on Life On Earth, Humans in Space, Explore the Universe, or one of the other links there.

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.

NASA Online Directives Information System - NASA's policies are accessbile to anyone online.

NASA Organization Structure - A linked list of all of NASA's directorates, offices, and centers.

NASA Technical Reports Server - Provides access to NASA's current and historical aerospace research.

NASA TV - See what we're doing right now!

NASA World Wind - See our Earth and its neighbors using imagery from Landsat and NASA's space probes.

NASA's Office of the Chief Financial Officer

NASA's Shuttle and Rocket Missions - See what NASA will launch next, and follow the links to see how you can be there!

National Space Science Data Center - Images, CD- ROMs, videos, and data sets from NASA's satellites and probes.

  Nov. 2007