NASA Announces Request For Information On Von Braun Collection

June 26, 2009

John Yembrick
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100


MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-115

NASA ANNOUNCES REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON VON BRAUN COLLECTION

WASHINGTON -- On the eve of the 40th anniversary of the historic
first
moon landing, NASA is seeking ideas from the public, academia, and
industry about how to analyze and catalog notes from spaceflight
pioneer Wernher von Braun into an electronic, searchable database or
other system.

Von Braun was the first director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight
Center in Huntsville, Ala., and a key figure in the development of
the Saturn V rocket and NASA's Apollo program. NASA has a full
collection of "Weekly Notes" von Braun wrote during the 1960s and
1970s. These notes were used to track programmatic and institutional
issues at Marshall, and are considered by many historians to be a
valuable source of data.

NASA has issued a request for information and is looking for concepts
that will provide an innovative resource for agency engineers and
scientists, as well as researchers in academia and industry.

For additional information and to view the request for information,
visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/directorates/somd/home

For more a complete biography of von Braun, visit:

http://history.msfc.nasa.gov/vonbraun/bio.html

NASA is planning several activities and events for the 40th
anniversary of the first moon landing on July 20. The events will
celebrate the Apollo Program, its accomplishments, and the benefits
to our lives today.

For more information about NASA's Apollo 40th Anniversary activities,
visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/apollo40th

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