A NASA Image and Video library, available to all
NASA has unveiled a new image and video library website that allows anyone to search through more than 140,000 NASA images, videos, and audio files.
I just tested it, putting “Apollo 8” as much search words. The site immediately made available a pretty nice collection of just under 300 images from that mission. The collection was far from complete (And I speak from experience, since when I wrote Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8 I looked at every one of the images taken during the mission as well as most of the images taken by NASA’s press office as well as numerous others by every news source, including Life magazine.) but it was a start. It appears NASA intends to keep adding images with time.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
NASA has unveiled a new image and video library website that allows anyone to search through more than 140,000 NASA images, videos, and audio files.
I just tested it, putting “Apollo 8” as much search words. The site immediately made available a pretty nice collection of just under 300 images from that mission. The collection was far from complete (And I speak from experience, since when I wrote Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8 I looked at every one of the images taken during the mission as well as most of the images taken by NASA’s press office as well as numerous others by every news source, including Life magazine.) but it was a start. It appears NASA intends to keep adding images with time.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
I just checked for a random video-file at their new site.
Holy cow! and by that I mean—
They have resident video-player for streaming, and the option to download files in small, medium, large, and “original” size. (and an option with closed-captioning inserted.)
-I’m looking at a random (4 minute 30 second) video and the streaming size alone is 2 GB’s, the “original” file-size (for this particular video) is 6 GB’s while in contrast the “small” file is still 700+ MB’s.
(All the video options appear to be in .MP4 format. I’m still downloading 2 of the files, so have not determined the quality differences.)
I’m wondering if they consulted any of the Archive.org folks and utilized their experience? That’s some massive bandwidth in play!
(I have low speed DSL over twisted-copper, but fortunately I have download-software that can handle downloads automatically, and schedule them for completion. I can generally stream Netflix & Amazon Prime with zero buffering, but experienced a lot of buffering at the Nasa site.)
All that aside–an extremely interesting resource.
(I’d like to know, how much this costs NASA to operate!)