Keith’s note: Have a look at “The Lunar Orbiter Meteoroid Experiments -Description and Results from Five Spacecraft” online at Infoeach – in China. China has their own version of NTRS – just in case NASA shuts it down again to check and see if China is getting access that it should not have. This paper was not available on NTRS to Americans for months even though it deals with spacecraft […]

NTRS News: The NASA Technical Reports Server has received an update!, NASA “The update provided: – A new fresh, clean look for users – Enhanced record display that shows author affiliations, sponsorship, and document type – A new Search History display that lists all searches conducted during a search session, and allows users to quickly recall a previous search for display or further refinement – Ability to search organization names […]

Keith’s note: The gutting of the NTRS continues. This report used to be on NTRS: “Distribution of pressure over model of the upper wing and aileron of a Fokker D-VII airplane, Fairbanks”, A J, NACA, 1927: “This report describes tests made for the purpose of determining the distribution of pressure over a model of the tapered portion of the upper wing and the aileron of a Fokker D-VII Airplane. Normal […]

Keith’s note: NASA SP-125 “Design of Liquid Propellant Rocket Engines” was online for decades at NTRS. Not any more. (we have it online here) It was declassified on 30 Nov 1969. Here is an excerpt from the book’s preface: “This book intends to build a bridge for the student and the young engineer: to link the rocket propulsion fundamentals and elements (which are well covered in the literature) with the […]

Keith’s note: Have a look at the Aerospace Research Information Center in South Korea. Do a few searches and you will see all sorts of NTRS material is hosted there. This makes things much easier for the folks in North Korea to access, one would assume. It has been there while NTRS was offline. Meanwhile NTRS is apparently back online – for now. According to NASA sources, based on an […]

NASA Ames Internal Memo: NTRS Offline – Use NASA Aeronautics and Space Database (NA&SD) “Employees who are used to relying on NTRS (which is currently unavailable) may want to obtain access to NA&SD where they can find all of the information contained within NTRS, plus quite a bit more. The tradeoff is that the access to the additional content in NA&SD comes with limitations on how the information can be […]

Keith’s note: If you are outside the NASA firewall and try to access NTRS you still get this notice: “The NASA technical reports server will be unavailable for public access while the agency conducts a review of the site’s content to ensure that it does not contain technical information that is subject to U.S. export control laws and regulations and that the appropriate reviews were performed. The site will return […]

NASA Tightens Security In Response To Insider Threat, Information Week “NASA has closed down its technical reports database and imposed tighter restrictions on remote access to its computer systems following the arrest of a Chinese contractor on suspicion of intellectual property theft.” NASA Technical Reports Database Goes Dark, Secrecy News “There is a HUGE amount of material on NTRS,” said [National Academy of Sciences] space policy analyst Dwayne Day. “If […]

NTRS Collections – NASA Technical Reports Server “Until further notice, the NTRS system will be unavailable for public access. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you and anticipate that this site will return to service in the near future.” Keith’s note: NASA just yanks this website offline. No press release, no official notice at NASA.gov. Why is this invaluable resource offline? NASA brags about all of its spinoffs […]