Precious data from space missions, going back decades, is being carefully restored and archived by scientists at NASA's Space Science Date Coordinated Archive, allowing researchers today to make new discoveries by delving into the history books.
"What's surprising is how much of this information is either lost or at least not in a condition that anybody can use it in," planetary scientist David Williams of the National Space Science Data Center Archive (NSSDCA) told Space.com. "We've got tons of photography, reels of film from various missions, a lot of microfilm and microfiche. We're slowly working through it."
