NASA Wants Your Ideas for Digitizing Rocket Scientist’s Notes (Wired.com)
The space agency NASA is taking the rare step of reaching out to the public for help. NASA is looking for the best way to analyze and electronically catalog a precious collection of notes that chronicle the early history of the human space flight program, according to Wired.com.
“We’re looking for creative ways to get it out to the public,” said project manager Jason Crusan. “We don’t always do the best with putting out large sets of data like this.”
The notes [pdf] are those of rocket scientist Wernher von Braun, the fist director of NASA’s Marshall Spaceflight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. They are typed with copious hand written notes in the margin.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/06/nasadata-2/
Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun (1912 –1977) was één van de leidende figuren bij de ontwikkeling van rakettechnologie in Duitsland en de Verenigde Staten.
Door zijn deelname aan het raketprogramma van Nazi-Duitsland werd hij een controversieel figuur, maar na de Tweede Wereldoorlog kon hij in de Verenigde Staten gaan werken.