Today, NASA joined forces with Flickr to create NASA on The Commons, a huge online collection of historic photographs. The images show the beginnings of the space program: everything from the site of the Johnson Space Center when it was still a farm to presidential visits from Johnson and Kennedy.
Looking at these, it’s pretty amazing to think that we hadn’t even perfected color photography, and yet we were already flying into space. Check out more photos on Flickr.
Friendship 7
John Glenn, Mercury - February 1962
Lyndon Johnson Watches Apollo 11 Liftoff
Apollo 11 Launch Spectators
Gemini-Titan 11 Launch
That would be great if kids could continue to safely access all those NASA images online. Too bad Flickr is actually a porn site that Yahoo refuses to label as such, so that they can bypass filtering that would keep their countless sex predators sharing millions of adult images, away from children. Shame on Yahoo for this ongoing charade just to make some money at any cost. As well on NASA for showing no forethought or common sense. I’m sure the corporations Yahoo dupes into sponsoring their endless parade of pedophiles on Flickr love finding out their ads, bought through Yahoo and now MS, are on porn pages being shown to kids. Go NASA! What a bunch of clueless government workers that probably love surfing for porn at our constant expense. More tax dollars at work, supporting and participating in Yahoo’s undercover hardcore porn site, Flickr that hosts the most smut on the internet now, yet is available in most grade schools and libraries. Great idea getting more kids to go there by featuring NASA images!