NASA has signed a contract with The Internet Archive to digitize and publically host over 50 years of images, video and film. Wow.

Much of what is in the collection may be surprising when it is released as the five-year project gets up to speed, he said. “I don’t think that any of us know the depth to which a lot of these assets are stored. You finish one project and you open up another box filled with things you’ve never seen before.”

The Internet Archive currently manages 5 petabytes of storage across three continents, and has pledged to add whatever capacity is necessary to complete the project. The History Channel is going to have a ball with this…