Space Shuttle photography on laser disc: a winning combination for the classroom

From the highest point on the surface of the Earth (Mt. Everest) to the lowest point on the land surface (the Dead Sea Rift Valley) almost everything can be seen in astronaut photographs. Now 200000 photographs of the Earth taken by astronauts from 1961 to the present are available on laser videodisc to educators, researchers, and the general public. These images from hand-held cameras can be used to enhance the teaching of geography, social studies, geology, oceanography, meteorology, and environmental change. Disc I contains the photos from the first 44 Space Shuttle missions. Disc 2 continues with the next 13 Space Shuttle missions and also includes selected photos of crews at work on Apollo, Skylab, and earlier programs. Using the accompanying data records and a data base program for your PC or Mac, you can create a system to search the data base in various ways and access the images on the laser disc