Over the past few months, NASA has been uploading some of its old footage and media materials on YouTube. This was posted on the Armstrong Flight Research Center’s channel and includes a variety of data. Interested users will now be able to watch space shuttles taking off or landing.
Or they can view recordings of scientists as they are installing instruments aboard a flying laboratory. The clips are not new, some of them even going as far back as the 1970’s, basically another century, never mind the decades.
Old NASA Footage Was Not Easily Accessible
This new series of uploads comes just a few months after NASA launched a new database with the still images captured by its spacecraft. This also includes audio recordings and videos. All of this data comes from missions and projects conducted across the various NASA space centers. The public can also access NASA’s research projects, thanks to another recently released program.
This new release of the old NASA footage archive comes with space shuttle tests, supersonic jet flights, and even some massive explosions.
Now, hundreds of these videos are in the process of becoming generally available. All courtesy of the NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center in California YouTube channel. According to reports, some 500 videos will become available on the popular video platform.
Around 300 of the videos have already been uploaded, with the remaining ones probably set for upload in the following days.
“Our hope is that by moving the content to more accessible platforms, NASA fans and media personnel will be able to access the content more regularly and become more fully immersed in what is happening at NASA,” Rebecca Richardson was reported as stating. She is NASA’s social media manager.
The newly uploaded videos were previously available on the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center website. Still, according to reports, they were quite hard to find.
Also, people interested in seeing them couldn’t search for them via Google or any other search engine. They could only be accessed from the website itself.
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