Over 250,000 Vintage NASA Images Added to National Archives Catalog

July 19th, 8:00 AM EDT

By Paula Wethington

National Archives building in Washington D.C.

Jonathan Cutrer / CC BY 2.0 via MGN

(NEWSnet) – Over 250,000 images related to NASA’s work over six decades are now available for public viewing via the National Archives Catalog.

The images date from 1943 to 2004, the National Archives said in its announcement. Given that date range, the photo credits are both to NASA and its predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.

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The scenes include facilities, personnel and technology development at Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, and Plum Brook Station (now known as Neil Armstrong Test Facility) in Sandusky, Ohio. The pictures also include publicity stills, along with accident documentation.

The National Archives Catalog photos were scanned from original prints and negatives that were transferred to the archives’ Still Picture Branch in 2014 and 2019.

The collection can be seen or searched online, and is organized in what the archivists said is a “rough chronological order.”

With this collection in addition to others, there are now 291,444 individual photographs in the catalog; with another 13,000 yet to come.

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