The Imagery Services Branch of NASA's Johnson Space Center is pleased 
to announce that our digital image collection is accessible on the 
Internet.  This collection includes press release and Earth observation
images from the manned space program from Mercury to the present.  All 
press release images (c. 10,000 image files) are currently available.  
Earth observation images have been loaded for the latest missions.  
These images can be accessed using the File Transfer Protocol (FTP), 
Gopher, and World Wide Web (WWW) information sharing protocols over 
the Internet.  Each of these protocols will provide access to our JPEG 
images (average 40k each) and the text files that describe them.

Throughout 1995, we plan to load an additional 300,000 Earth observation
images.  We will also load each mission's press release images as they 
are selected.


URLs:

ftp://ftp-images.jsc.nasa.gov  (FTP service is currently unavailable.  It will be back on-line soon.)


http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/ 


Further information regarding the availability of these images through 
the Internet can be obtained from the Imagery Management office of the 
Imagery Services Branch.  Contact: 


General Public: Carlos Fontano cfontano@GP301.JSC.NASA.GOV    
Gov. Agencies/Contractors: Steve Candler scandler@ja2.jsc.nasa.gov 
or     
Mr. Larry Sweet (lsweet@ja2.jsc.nasa.gov) or