Constitution Day

1. Space Shuttle Challenger
2. This is the Presidential Report from 1986 and is part of five-volume set of documents outlining the detailed causes of the accident during the launch of STS-51L, with an outline, program of proposed corrective courses of action to prevent the same occurrence from happening again, and a set of recommendations to prevent other types of disasters in the future.
3. Report to the President. 1986. Washington, D.C: The Commission.
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6. Space Shuttle Columbia
7. This is a memorial publication that highlights the members of the crew of Columbia (Mission STS-107). Included is a pictorial view of the crew, as well as details of the memorial service and the efforts to recover as much of the shuttle as possible. It also highlights the outpouring of grief and sentiment of the American people towards the disaster.
8. United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 2003. STS-107 Memories. Washington, D.C.? National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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11. Space Shuttle Columbia
12. This is the Accident Investigation Report (2003) of STS-107 on reentry due to a wing insulating tile failure. This six-volume report defines the reasons for the failure and makes a series of recommendations for corrections, including implementation of processes and steps before any new flights can be conducted.
13. Gehman, Harold W, and United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 2003. Columbia Accident Investigation Board : Report. Arlington, Va.] ; Columbia Accident Investigation Board.
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16. EVAs from the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station
17. This details spacewalks or extravehicular activities (EVAs) from 1997-2011 and provides details about each space walk from the shuttle and International Space Station, including which mission, the duration of walk, who did the walk, and the purpose of the walk.
18. Ta, Julie B, Robert C Treviño, and David S. F Portree. 2016. Walking to Olympus : An EVA Chronology. Volume 2, 1997-2011. Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA History Program Office, Public Outreach Division, Office of Communications NASA Headquarters.
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21. Game
22. Space Travel Hazards is a game to test your abilities to travel to Mars and back while avoiding the radiation hazards of space.
23. United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 2009. Space Travel Hazards How Safely Can You Travel through Space? Washington, D.C: National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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26. Satellite Puzzle
27. This is from a small series of puzzles offered by NASA to educate everyone about satellite imagery, how it is created, and how the data is collected.
28. Goddard Space Flight Center. 2008. “From Data to Image : Making Images from Space.” Greenbelt, Md: NASA Goddard Space Fiight Center.

1. Earth As Art
2. These are images of Earth, with satellites observing specific places around the world that look like abstract art. They show a wide variety geographic features and have vibrant color, shape, and form.
3. Friedl, Lawrence, and Karen Yuen. 2012. Earth as Art. Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration

This is an image of the Lena River Delta in Russia.

Covering eight linear feet of shelf space, this collection details the inner workings of a single, notorious committee. This House Committee had numerous names over the years. The most famous was the Committee on Un-American Activities, and it held hearings that lasted almost 20 years. Its main purpose was to investigate private citizens, public employees, movie stars, educators, and numerous types of organizations for disloyalty to the U.S. and suspected ties to Communism.

This volume shows some of the testimony of Abe Gelbart, a former professor of Mathematics at MIT and, during this time, at Syracuse University, who was called to testify before the committee in 1953.  

US Geological Survey topographic map sheets from the 19^th century were printed using copper plate engraving. This is an example of one of the three plates (each weighing about 17 lbs.) used to print the Rochester, New York 1:62,500 scale topographic maps, printed from 1895-1945. There are three plates, one for each printed color: brown designated contour lines or levels of elevation of the landscape; blue portrayed the water features found on the map, like creeks, rivers, ponds, lakes, reservoirs, or other water related features like swamps and marshes; and black (displayed here) was used to designate man-made features, like roads, buildings and other objects. On average, it took about four years of hand engraving to create these printing plates. The amazing thing to realize about this process is that the engravers had to engrave all the features backwards on the plates so that when the map was printed all the text and features would be read correctly by the user.