NASA brings historical photos to Flickr Commons

NASA is now providing images detailing its early years on Flickr's Commons archive, the space agency announced on Monday. CNet reports.

NASA's new Commons page displays nearly 200 photos taken throughout the venerable organization's early history. They're arranged in three photo sets, including "Building NASA," "Launch/Takeoff," and "NASA Center Namesakes." The photos available on Flickr aren't available exclusively on that site. In fact, since 2007, NASA has been working with the Internet Archive to display its historical photos.

But according to NASA, it decided to bring some of those images to The Commons to both make them more readily available online and give users a bit more "insight about NASA's history."

A NASA spokesperson said that the organization plans to gradually add more photos to Flickr over time.

Read full article.

emily | 9:31 AM | Moblogs / Photoblogs / Videoblogs |
The Permanent Link to this page is: http://www.textually.org/picturephoning/archives/2010/08/026728.htm

Tweet