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Larry Dignan, Andrew Nusca and Rachel King

Flickr gives NASA's historical photos some distribution

By | August 30, 2010, 12:51pm PDT

Summary: In a partnership, NASA, Flickr and the Internet Archive are putting up collections of historic photos ranging from launches and takeoffs to key players in NASA history.

Flickr, the Internet Archive and NASA have teamed up to surface 50 years of space history.

In a partnership, NASA, Flickr and the Internet Archive are putting up collections of historic photos ranging from launches and takeoffs to key players in NASA history.

Users can add tags and keywords to the images as well as comments.

For space buffs—and who isn’t?—the collections are definitely worth a look. The Internet Archive began compiling NASA images in 2007. NASAimages.org launched in 2008.

Gallery: NASA, Flickr space gallery takes off

Flickr’s reach is likely to give these NASA images a bit more exposure. Among the collections, the Launch/Takeoff gallery has the most eye candy. A few favorites…

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Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and SmartPlanet as well as Editorial Director of ZDNet's sister site TechRepublic.

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Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and SmartPlanet as well as Editorial Director of ZDNet's sister site TechRepublic. He was most recently Executive Editor of News and Blogs at ZDNet. Prior to that he was executive news editor at eWeek and news editor at Baseline. He also served as the East Coast news editor and finance editor at CNET News.com. Larry has covered the technology and financial services industry since 1995, publishing articles in WallStreetWeek.com, Inter@ctive Week, The New York Times, and Financial Planning magazine. He's a graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism and the University of Delaware.

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RE: Flickr gives NASA's historical photos some distribution
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Why would any US goverment use Flickr? They allow pornography to be posted. No children should be on that site.
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I tried to subscribe inside of your rss feed , but had an issue such as mulberry purses it to google great ascension

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