NASA Videos Archives and other Apollo History Available on iTunes U

NASA has recently announced that, as we commemorate the 43rd anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, the nation’s space agency has made a wide collection of historical video, audio, photographs and documents available to the public via iTunes U, a section of iTunes focused on educational resources.

Currently the NASA archive on iTunes U has some 300 items including Apollo program materials and a collection of items for each of the Apollo missions. The archive also includes a special Politics of Apollo collection of key documents related to the U.S. lunar program. Like much in the iTunes U section of iTunes, the content in the NASA archive is free to download.

“New materials will continue to be uploaded as we expand the coverage both in depth and breadth,” said Bill Barry, NASA’s chief historian. “We’re thrilled to educate people on NASA’s rich history and are open to user suggestions and requests.”

A number of informative ebooks related to NASA history and missions are available on the iTunes U archive. Some of the titles featured by NASA are reader favorites such as Asif Siddiqi’s “Challenge to Apollo,” the “Exploring the Unknown” series of documentary histories, and all four volumes of Boris Chertok’s “Rockets and People.”

The Apollo archive data from NASA is just one of a number of the agency’s archive and educational data available on iTunes U. A complete list of other archives, including collections from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, is available at: http://www.nasa.gov/connect/itunesu.html.