University of Houston - Clear Lake: Space Archive

[Richard T Eger]

The following was posted on NASA News from the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX. The archives are those of the NASA - Johnson Space Center. It is possible that work dealing with German missile development in WW II and subsequent testing in the US might be within the archive collection.

Regards,
Richard


"Bill Jeffs
Johnson Space Center, TX
February 6, 2001
(281) 483-5111

JSC RELEASE: J01-13

SPACE ARCHIVE TO BE ESTABLISHED AT UH-CLEAR LAKE

The University of Houston - Clear Lake will receive and maintain Johnson Space
Center's historical records under a memorandum of understanding to be signed next
Thursday, Feb. 8, at a ceremony at UHCL.

The agreement is part of the continuing effort by NASA and Johnson Space Center to
share historic information with the public.

The ceremony formalizing the agreement, between Johnson Space Center, UHCL and
the National Archives and Records Administration, will be held from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.
in the Alfred R. Neumann Library at UHCL. Johnson Space Center officials and UHCL
President Dr. William Staples will join in the signing of the agreement, which has been
approved and signed by the Archivist of the United States. The event is open to the
media and public.

Johnson Space Center's history collection includes copies of correspondence,
memos, reports, interviews and other materials documenting the history and role
played by the center in NASA's human space flight program.

The first series of documents to be moved are records of the Apollo Program, which
had once been kept at the Woodson Research Center at Rice University's Fondren
Library. More than 1,000 oral history interview tapes, transcripts and videos
documenting the men and women that worked on the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo
programs will be included in the initial move.

Records scheduled for later transfer include material on the space shuttle, space
station and the general history of Johnson Space Center.

Archives to house the records are under construction in the library, and should be
completed later this year. The archives will be open to students, researchers and the
public.

"Transfer of the center's history collection to UHCL will allow easier access to this
material by scholars and the general public," says Johnson Space Center Historian
Glen Swanson.

A great deal of unprocessed material in the center's history collection needs attention,
Swanson said. Those records transferred to UHCL will free up additional on-site space
for processing this backlog of material, which can then be cataloged and indexed
before joining the rest of the collection at the university.

The expanded UHCL archives will be staffed by a full-time archivist and other trained
supp