Three compilations of historic NASA images have been released on The Commons on Flickr, the fruit of a collaborative effort between Flickr, NASA and the Internet Archive.
Although all of the photographs in these sets have been available to the public via NASAimages.org since 2008, NASA on The Commons allows the photographs to be tagged, annotated and given keywords. It also widens the opportunities to share and embed these photographs, ultimately increasing overall awareness of the NASA archives.
The inaugural sets in the collection chronicle the building of NASA, namesakes behind NASA's 10 field centers, and iconic images of takeoffs and landings of spacecraft and aircraft.
NASA historians will continue to add images and photo sets to The Commons over time.