The archive grows through recordings and materials provided by space enthusiasts, engineers, former NASA personnel, families, and private collectors. Your rare historical media can be preserved, digitized, transcribed, and made searchable for future generations.
Original media and materials from across the Space Shuttle era.
VHS, Betamax, MiniDV
Cassettes, reel-to-reel, MP3
Flight logs, transcripts, notes, technical papers
Transfers, discs, and captures
Mission coverage, interviews, press briefings
Privately held shuttle-era materials
Your contribution helps preserve irreplaceable spaceflight history and makes it accessible to researchers, educators, and future generations. Original media can be safely returned after preservation and digitization.
Contributors are credited in the catalog and archive records according to their preferences, and sensitive materials are handled with care.
Magnetic tape and film degrade over time. Contributing ensures these materials are saved before they are lost.
Even small pieces can fill critical gaps and restore lost context across the wider archive.
Archival material powers scholarship, documentaries, and inspires future generations.
Contributors are credited in the catalog and archive records according to their preferences.
Contributing helps preserve history and share it — it doesn't lock it away.
A growing selection of footage is shared publicly, free to watch, on ShuttleSource, the archive's parent project on YouTube, so anyone can browse the collection. Not everything is posted, but over time more and more footage is released to this channel. What spacearchive.ai adds on top is the work that makes decades of material usable: digitization, speaker-labeled transcripts, indexing, and search. Research access and licensing support that ongoing preservation work.
The kinds of material where additional contributions would most strengthen the record right now.
Seeking pre- and post-mission press conferences, crew and program briefings, and news Q&A sessions from across the Shuttle program — the spoken record that puts each mission in context.
Seeking footage, audio, and documentation from the program's first years — STS-1 through the flights of 1985 — a period that is thinly represented and increasingly hard to recover.
Seeking material documenting orbiter processing and ground operations — work in the Orbiter Processing Facility, the VAB, and on the pad — that rarely made it to broadcast.
These are curatorial priorities and will be refined as the collection grows. If you have material outside these areas, we'd still love to hear from you.
A clear, documented path from your shelf to a searchable record.
If you have Space Shuttle-era recordings, documents, or photographs, we'd be glad to help preserve them — safely, with full attribution, and returned to you after digitization.