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Ok, so maybe I'm missing something, but what's new here? Is it just the portal? I've been reading NASA technical papers and publications for years, and althoug
by owenversteeg 10y ago
Ok, so maybe I'm missing something, but what's new here? Is it just the portal?
I've been reading NASA technical papers and publications for years, and although most of the research I was reading was very focused in a specific field, everything I wanted to see was freely available. Even some of the publications linked in the article have been online for a decent amount of time.
- _delirium 10y agoI've read NASA tech reports for years too; seems like one of those things that's "always" been online, though I don't know when precisely it went online. It's been online long enough, at least, to have even accumulated some episodes of backlash. In 2013, it was forced offline for a few months, because Congresspeople claimed that it might include content The Chinese could use to reconstruct national-security-sensitive information, so demanded that reports undergo a security audit: http://fas.org/blogs/secrecy/2013/03/ntrs_dark/ http://fas.org/blogs/secrecy/2013/03/ntrs_dark/