NASA is putting hundreds of historical videos on YouTube
It was almost impossible to find the footage before.
As part of its mission to make its research easier to access, NASA is uploading decades' worth of archived footage to YouTube. So far around 300 videos have been uploaded, with a further 200 on the way. Each clip documents an important part of NASA's history, including Space Shuttle landing research, X1 and X43A trial flights and the testing of the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle.
SpaceX chief Elon Musk has previously commented on how difficult it was to find historical footage on NASA's website. Before the uploading project, curious flight-fans would have to laboriously search through the Dryden Aircraft Movie Collection via the Dryden Flight Research Center website. Standard search queries in Google would reveal nothing. Now, with the video library prominently on the (renamed) Armstrong Flight Research Center's website and YouTube channel, everyone has easy access to these fascinating historical highlights.
