April 21, 2004

Doc Mirelson/Sonja Alexander
Headquarters, Washington
(Phone: 202/358-1600/1761)

RELEASE: 04-137

NASA SEEKS PARTNERSHIP IN DIGITAL IMAGERY

NASA wants to make the historic imagery captured by the agency's 
exploration activities accessible to the public. NASA has requested 
proposals to digitize and consolidate agency analog, still, film, 
video and graphic imagery for easier public online research and 
retrieval.

A comprehensive database of historical, educational and commercially 
viable material will be developed by a partnership between NASA and 
an organization or group. NASA has more than 115,000 film and video 
titles and millions of still images documenting the history of 
America's space program. 

NASA will review proposals from organizations sharing the agency's 
mission, values and goals that could provide entrepreneurial 
opportunities, in a nonreimbursable relationship, to provide public 
access to these vast imagery archives.

Through partnerships with the private sector, NASA hopes to continue 
to inspire the next generation of explorers, while sharing the 
tremendous archives of imagery gathered during America's exploration 
of space.

For information about this request for proposals on the Internet, 
visit:



http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eps/bizops.cgi?gr=D&pin=04#109967
or
http://www1.eps.gov/spg/NASA/HQ/OPHQDC/06-2D04-2D2004-2DHBD/listing.html

For information about NASA and agency programs on the Internet, visit: 


http://www.nasa.gov  

	
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