NASA took the decision to publish an impressive collection of pictures on the Internet in order to allow the free download of every user who is interested in seeing moon missions or other space photos. The entire process will be enhanced by Internet Archive which will cover all the costs of the operation as numerous pictures provided by NASA are not yet available as digital content.

At this time, a huge collection of pictures provided by NASA are published on more than 3,000 websites but the organization aims to make Internet Archive the only place where people can find the entire collection of pics. Wired News reported that Internet Archive will have to pay several million dollars to complete this plan because NASA offers a huge amount of content.

"The big payoff on this will be getting the terrific materials that are basically in the space centers up and available on the Internet. They are still images, different forms of film and video tapes over the years. The idea is to get it all online. It's sometimes a little difficult to find things you might want to use for a school report or a news program," Internet Archive founder said according to the same source.

The content provided by NASA might also include sounds, presentations and all kinds of documents that might be useful for the Internet users. However, Wired News reports that the deal is a non-exclusive agreement so the agency is able to sell the content to any other company.

As you might know, NASA is one of the largest providers of satellite imagery for many of the Internet companies as Google bundled a huge collection of photos in Google Earth. The search giant's downloadable application provides one click access to satellite imagery from all over the world, NASA being the one which brings high quality pics to the fans of the program.