NASA Restores Space Mission Data

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How a mini-team of NASA archivists is restoring astronomical history

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NASA 's Space Science Data Coordinated Archive ( NSSDCA ) is restoring and digitizing data from interplanetary space missions.

The mission's data can still be used by researchers today to help guide missions of the future.

David Williams , the head of the NSSDca, is also a planetary scientist.

He says he has one of the best jobs at NASA .

NSSDCA has discovered alarming gaps and vulnerabilities in the archive.

Lots of data from experiments and missions from before this rigorous validation scheme was introduced that just hasn't been archived.

Today everything is digitized and backed-up, but the original source — be it a print-out, microfilm or nine -track tape — is retained in an "archive information packet".

All new data is digitized, and old data is in the process of being digitized.

Hard copies still exist in two locations: one , at the NSSDCA , and two at a location known as " Iron Mountain" Short of nuclear war , the data at Iron Mountain should be safe, says David Williams .

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