{ "reviewed_on": "2026-11-12", "scope": "History of NASA information dissemination and the JSC history holdings at UHCL, with a focused examination of the access change UHCL dates to October 2024.", "memo_obtained": false, "formal_request_submitted": false, "sources": [ { "id": "space-act", "title": "National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 · unamended", "url": "https://www.nasa.gov/history/national-aeronautics-and-space-act-of-1958-unamended/", "date": "1958-07-29", "kind": "Original law, reproduced by NASA", "locator": "Sections 203(a)(3), 303 and 304", "review": "Relevant statutory sections read. Historical text; not a substitute for current codification." }, { "id": "rdc", "title": "A User’s Evaluation of a NASA Regional Dissemination Center", "url": "https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19690018751/downloads/19690018751.pdf", "date": "1969 catalogue record", "kind": "NASA-sponsored evaluation", "locator": "Introduction, printed p. v / PDF p. 7", "review": "Describes the first regional centre in 1960 and dissemination through document references and microfiche. Retrospective evidence for 1960, not a 1960 access regulation." }, { "id": "tn1966", "title": "NASA TN D-3338 · PCM frame synchronization", "url": "https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19660011741/downloads/19660011741.pdf", "date": "1966-03", "kind": "Contemporary public technical publication", "locator": "NASA publication-series description, PDF p. 26", "review": "Title page and publication categories inspected; used for dissemination practice, not an analysis of the technical experiment." }, { "id": "foia-history", "title": "DOJ · FOIA legislative materials", "url": "https://www.justice.gov/oip/foia-legislative-materials", "date": "Current historical reference", "kind": "Federal legislative-history guide", "locator": "1966 passage and subsequent amendments", "review": "Enactment chronology checked; FOIA became operational in 1967." }, { "id": "guide1997", "title": "Research in NASA History · NASA HHR-64", "url": "https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19980019295/downloads/19980019295.pdf", "date": "1997-06", "kind": "Dated NASA research guide", "locator": "Printed pp. 55–56 / PDF pp. 59–60; current-records discussion", "review": "Cover says June 1997 despite a 1998 report identifier and 2013 acquisition metadata. Rice loan, finding aids and appointment access read." }, { "id": "guide2009", "title": "Research in NASA History · NASA SP-2009-4543", "url": "https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/sp-4543.pdf", "date": "2009-04", "kind": "Dated NASA research guide", "locator": "Printed pp. 42 and 59 / PDF pp. 44 and 61", "review": "Relevant text read; p. 59 rendered and inspected. Separates the public UHCL archive from restricted active STIC files. A 2023 hosting path is not its publication date." }, { "id": "oig2008", "title": "NASA OIG · IG-08-017", "url": "https://oig.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/ig-08-017.pdf?emrc=670ab9e7c7833", "date": "2008-06-02", "kind": "Contemporary oversight audit", "locator": "Overview, printed pp. i–iii / PDF pp. 3–5", "review": "Audit scope, counts and limitations read. STI review audit, not a 2024 archive-access investigation." }, { "id": "newsletter2010", "title": "NASA History newsletter · Fourth Quarter 2010", "url": "https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/nltr27-4.pdf", "date": "2010-Q4", "kind": "Contemporary agency account", "locator": "Printed p. 12 / PDF p. 12", "review": "Page rendered and read. Gives 8 February 2001 MOU date and a planned transfer by February 2012. Does not certify that transfer was completed." }, { "id": "ntrs2013", "title": "NASA STI webpage preserved as exhibit GE-1020", "url": "https://ptabdata.blob.core.windows.net/files/2017/IPR2017-00999/v21_GE-1020%20About%20NASA%20Technical%20Reports%20Server.pdf", "date": "2013 notices in a later webpage capture", "kind": "Historical NASA statement reproduced in a federal case exhibit", "locator": "PDF p. 2 · 5 June and 10 September 2013 notices", "review": "Text of the reproduced NASA notices read. Not a current NASA announcement or a finding about the UHCL collection." }, { "id": "export2017", "title": "NPR 2190.1C · NASA Export Control Program", "url": "https://nodis3.gsfc.nasa.gov/displayDir.cfm?Internal_ID=N_PR_2190_001C_&page_name=Preface", "date": "Effective 2017-09-08; revalidated 2023-06-20", "kind": "Agency procedural directive", "locator": "Preface P.1, P.2 and P.6; linked Change History", "review": "Current preface and change history read. Revalidation amended citations and administration; do not project every current sentence back to 2017." }, { "id": "uhcl2022", "title": "UHCL Faculty Handbook · August 2022", "url": "https://www.uhcl.edu/provost/faculty-success/documents/uhcl-faculty-handbook-2022-clean-final.pdf", "date": "2022-08", "kind": "Contemporary university description", "locator": "Printed p. 151 / PDF p. 151", "review": "Indexed full text read. Direct download returned 404 and page image was unavailable in this review; the dated NASA guide and captured research guides provide additional evidence." }, { "id": "snapshot-about", "title": "UHCL JSC guide · archived 13 June 2024", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20240613082150/https://uhcl.libguides.com/JSCHistoryCollection/About", "date": "Capture 2024-06-13", "kind": "Archived institutional webpage", "locator": "Collection overview, concluding access paragraph", "review": "Captured HTML retrieved and read. Already conditions researcher access on ITAR compliance. Capture date is not an implementation date." }, { "id": "snapshot-access", "title": "UHCL research/access guide · archived 26 February 2024", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20240226234754/https://uhcl.libguides.com/JSCHistoryCollection/AccessPoints", "date": "Capture 2024-02-26", "kind": "Archived institutional webpage", "locator": "Researching and Accessing JSC History Collection", "review": "Captured HTML retrieved and read. Offers possible secure electronic transfer of located, already-digitized records; requires specific series, section and box/folder details." }, { "id": "snapshot-nov", "title": "UHCL JSC guide · archived 8 November 2024", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20241108092304/https://uhcl.libguides.com/JSCHistoryCollection/About", "date": "Capture 2024-11-08", "kind": "Archived institutional webpage", "locator": "Concluding access paragraph; displayed guide update 1 October 2024", "review": "Captured HTML retrieved and read. Still has the older eligibility formulation. A site-wide update stamp cannot date an individual paragraph." }, { "id": "snapshot-july", "title": "UHCL JSC guide · archived 16 July 2025", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20250716121432/https://uhcl.libguides.com/JSCHistoryCollection/About", "date": "Capture 2025-07-16", "kind": "Archived institutional webpage", "locator": "Concluding eligibility paragraph", "review": "Captured HTML retrieved and read. Lists NASA/UHCL categories with an October 2024 effective-month statement. This capture does not establish the start date of the current reproduction ban." }, { "id": "itar2024", "title": "2024 Code of Federal Regulations · 22 CFR Part 120", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2024-title22-vol1/pdf/CFR-2024-title22-vol1-part120.pdf", "date": "2024-04-01 edition", "kind": "Dated regulatory text", "locator": "Sections 120.33–120.34, printed p. 464 / PDF p. 13; 120.50, 120.62–120.63", "review": "Relevant text read and p. 464 rendered. A dated edition, not a complete check of every intervening October 2024 amendment. Does not classify any requested Apollo file." }, { "id": "travel2024", "title": "NPR 2810.2A · NASA information outside the U.S.", "url": "https://nodis3.gsfc.nasa.gov/displayDir.cfm?Internal_ID=N_PR_2810_002A_&page_name=Preface", "date": "Effective 2024-10-03", "kind": "Related directive; connection unestablished", "locator": "Preface P.1–P.2", "review": "Scope read: NASA users handling information and devices outside the U.S. It has not been identified as the UHCL memorandum." }, { "id": "newsletter2024", "title": "NASA History News & Notes · Fall 2024", "url": "https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/newsnotes-41-3.pdf", "date": "2024-Fall", "kind": "Contemporary agency narrative", "locator": "Chief Archivist, pp. 2–3; Houston, We Have an Archive, pp. 22–23; Glenn, p. 25", "review": "Selected articles read. Describes preservation, internal reuse and the October 2022 enterprise change at Glenn; no UHCL access memorandum identified in these articles." }, { "id": "uhcl-current", "title": "UHCL JSC History Collection · current overview", "url": "https://uhcl.libguides.com/JSCHistoryCollection/About", "date": "Reviewed 2026-11-12", "kind": "Holding institution’s published policy account", "locator": "Access change, eligibility and copying paragraphs; collection history", "review": "Direct current text read. Attributes the rule to NASA Headquarters and a memorandum; the memorandum itself is not supplied here." }, { "id": "uhcl-index", "title": "UHCL · researching and accessing JSC records", "url": "https://uhcl.libguides.com/JSCHistoryCollection/AccessPoints", "date": "Reviewed 2026-11-12", "kind": "Holding institution’s catalogue guidance", "locator": "Website transition; defunct September 2025 indexes; HawkWorks route", "review": "Current guide read. Folder inventories do not reproduce all of the former document-level search capability." }, { "id": "foia-current", "title": "DOJ · FOIA statutory text with 2016 amendments", "url": "https://www.justice.gov/oip/freedom-information-act-5-usc-552", "date": "Current reference checked 2026-11-12", "kind": "Federal statutory reference", "locator": "5 USC 552(a)(2), (a)(3), (a)(6) and (b)", "review": "Policy/manual disclosure, existing-record requests, appeals and segregability provisions read. Application depends on the actual records and any supported exemption." }, { "id": "nasa-foia", "title": "NASA · FOIA guidance", "url": "https://www.nasa.gov/foia/foia-guidance/", "date": "Reviewed 2026-11-12", "kind": "Current agency request procedure", "locator": "Describing records, fees, routing and records resources", "review": "Requests must reasonably describe existing records; the agency is not required to conduct new research or create an explanation." }, { "id": "nara255", "title": "National Archives · Record Group 255", "url": "https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/255.html", "date": "Current catalogue reference", "kind": "Separate archival custody route", "locator": "NASA and Manned Spacecraft Center descriptions", "review": "Existing project catalogue lead. No accession/box match to the three requested Apollo record groups has been confirmed." } ], "timeline": [ { "id": "act1958", "date": "1958-07-29", "label": "29 July 1958", "year": 1958, "track": "law", "title": "Public dissemination is in NASA’s founding law", "finding": "Sections 203(a)(3) and 303 establish dissemination and public inspection, qualified by statutory withholding and national-security classification. Section 304 supplies security powers. Openness and exceptions coexist at the root.", "limit": "The unamended Act is a historical baseline, not the entire law in force today.", "sources": [ "space-act" ] }, { "id": "rdc1960", "date": "1960", "label": "1960 · described in a 1969 evaluation", "year": 1960, "track": "access", "title": "A practical distribution network begins", "finding": "NASA-sponsored regional dissemination centres supplied businesses, universities and other organizations with technical-information references and report copies on microfiche.", "limit": "Evidence of technical dissemination, not proof that every internal mission file was publicly accessible.", "sources": [ "rdc" ] }, { "id": "collection1962", "date": "1962", "label": "1962 · institutional retrospective", "year": 1962, "track": "custody", "title": "The JSC history collection begins", "finding": "The centre’s historian assembled source material for human-spaceflight histories. The compiled collection included office copies, reports, correspondence and historians’ research materials.", "limit": "A history collection, a published report repository and the official federal record are different things.", "sources": [ "uhcl-current", "newsletter2024" ] }, { "id": "publication1966", "date": "1966-03", "label": "March 1966", "year": 1966, "track": "access", "title": "Public reports and limited distribution already coexist", "finding": "A publicly issued Technical Note describes NASA’s publication categories, including Technical Memorandums with limited distribution for preliminary data, security or other reasons.", "limit": "A report’s series label alone does not determine its present release status.", "sources": [ "tn1966" ] }, { "id": "foia1966", "date": "1966-07-04", "label": "1966–1967", "year": 1966, "track": "law", "title": "FOIA adds an enforceable records-request route", "finding": "The law was signed in July 1966 and took effect in 1967, with later amendments changing the disclosure framework.", "limit": "A reading-room rule and an agency’s formal FOIA determination are separate decisions.", "sources": [ "foia-history", "foia-current" ] }, { "id": "rice1981", "date": "1981", "label": "Summer 1981 · later institutional history", "year": 1981, "track": "custody", "title": "The collection moves toward university public access", "finding": "UHCL’s institutional history describes an agreement between NASA JSC and Rice University intended to provide public access to the historical collection.", "limit": "We have not obtained the signed 1981 agreement or its detailed reproduction clauses.", "sources": [ "uhcl-current" ] }, { "id": "guide1997", "date": "1997-06", "label": "June 1997", "year": 1997, "track": "access", "title": "An appointment and finding-aid system is documented", "finding": "NASA’s guide describes selected records loaned to Rice, public appointments at the JSC History Office and electronic searches of correspondence by fields including date, author and subject.", "limit": "This is evidence of the advertised research system; it does not promise unrestricted copies of every file.", "sources": [ "guide1997" ] }, { "id": "mou2001", "date": "2001-02-08", "label": "8 February 2001 · reported in 2010", "year": 2001, "track": "custody", "title": "JSC, NARA and UHCL sign a new arrangement", "finding": "NASA’s 2010 newsletter dates the three-party memorandum to 8 February 2001. Its account distinguishes NARA materials from the wider history collection.", "limit": "The signed agreement, renewals and series-by-series legal custody still need to be obtained.", "sources": [ "newsletter2010", "guide2009" ] }, { "id": "review2005", "date": "2005-03-25", "label": "25 March 2005 · directive cited by OIG", "year": 2005, "track": "law", "title": "STI publication requires review", "finding": "NPR 2200.2B required review before public release of scientific and technical information. The later OIG audit examined its implementation at four centres.", "limit": "This is publication clearance; it is not the still-unobtained 2024 UHCL access memorandum.", "sources": [ "oig2008" ] }, { "id": "audit2008", "date": "2008-06-02", "label": "2 June 2008", "year": 2008, "track": "law", "title": "An oversight audit finds review failures", "finding": "OIG identified 413 of 4,702 reviewed STI items released without required reviews in fiscal 2005–2006. It also said none of those 413 items was restricted. That distinction matters.", "limit": "The sample does not establish sensitive leakage, a population-wide rate, or the reason for the 2024 change.", "sources": [ "oig2008" ] }, { "id": "guide2009", "date": "2009-04", "label": "April 2009", "year": 2009, "track": "access", "title": "NASA distinguishes a public archive from restricted active files", "finding": "The guide describes public access at UHCL and a separate STIC active-document collection limited to JSC personnel and contractors. Elsewhere it lists lawful restrictions including export controls.", "limit": "The guide is historical; current appointments and eligibility must be checked separately.", "sources": [ "guide2009" ] }, { "id": "digitize2010", "date": "2010-Q4", "label": "Fourth Quarter 2010", "year": 2010, "track": "custody", "title": "Digitization and a planned NARA transfer complicate the trail", "finding": "NASA reports scanning more than 800 boxes and plans to move a NARA-owned portion to Fort Worth by February 2012, retaining reference scans. The account reports extensive external research use.", "limit": "A planned move is not a transfer receipt. We have not matched these boxes to our requested files.", "sources": [ "newsletter2010" ] }, { "id": "ntrs2013", "date": "2013-03-20", "label": "20 March–8 May 2013; September restoration update", "year": 2013, "track": "access", "title": "A previous export-review interruption is documented", "finding": "A preserved NASA STI webpage reports that NTRS went offline for export review, returned on 8 May, and restored further documents in September.", "limit": "This concerns NTRS, not the JSC reading room. The reproduced notices distinguish metadata records from full-text documents; their totals cannot be combined as one document count.", "sources": [ "ntrs2013" ] }, { "id": "export2017", "date": "2017-09-08", "label": "8 September 2017; change dated 20 June 2023", "year": 2017, "track": "law", "title": "Export-control procedures predate 2024", "finding": "NPR 2190.1C covers NASA transfers to foreign entities and describes applicability to agreement parties where incorporated. Its change history records a 2023 administrative revalidation.", "limit": "The current directive neither identifies the UHCL memorandum nor proves how a particular historical file is controlled.", "sources": [ "export2017" ] }, { "id": "handbook2022", "date": "2022-08", "label": "August 2022", "year": 2022, "track": "access", "title": "UHCL still describes research access for the public", "finding": "The faculty handbook names the JSC History Collection among archival holdings and describes access for the university community and general public.", "limit": "This is a broad service description, not a guarantee that every item could be read or reproduced. Indexed text was available; the direct PDF download failed in this review.", "sources": [ "uhcl2022" ] }, { "id": "enterprise2022", "date": "2022-10", "label": "2022–2023 · institutional accounts", "year": 2022, "track": "custody", "title": "NASA consolidates history and archives services", "finding": "UHCL describes an enterprise archives programme beginning in 2022 and website consolidation in 2023. NASA’s Fall 2024 newsletter separately dates Glenn’s organizational transition to October 2022.", "limit": "Organizational sequence is context, not evidence that consolidation caused the later restrictions.", "sources": [ "uhcl-index", "newsletter2024" ] }, { "id": "remote2024", "date": "2024-02-26", "label": "26 February and 13 June 2024 · archived webpages", "year": 2024, "track": "access", "title": "Conditional access includes a remote-copy route", "finding": "The February access guide offers to locate some already-digitized records and send them securely. The June overview already makes researcher access conditional on ITAR compliance.", "limit": "Neither page proves a universal right to scanning or records that were not cleared. These are capture dates.", "sources": [ "snapshot-access", "snapshot-about" ] }, { "id": "restriction2024", "date": "2024-10", "label": "October 2024 · effective month reported later by UHCL", "year": 2024, "track": "law", "title": "The narrower eligibility rule is dated to this month", "finding": "The July 2025 capture lists NASA/UHCL researcher categories with an October 2024 effective-month statement. Today’s guide adds NASA permission, onsite use, no reproductions and notes only.", "limit": "We have no signed memorandum. The exact start date and authority for each component, especially the copying ban, are not independently established.", "sources": [ "snapshot-july", "uhcl-current" ] }, { "id": "capture2024", "date": "2024-11-08", "label": "8 November 2024 · archived webpage", "year": 2024, "track": "access", "title": "The captured page still carries the older wording", "finding": "This overview capture still uses the earlier ITAR-conditioned access formulation. By the July 2025 capture, the narrower categories appear.", "limit": "A communication-timing mismatch, not proof of deception or a different actual implementation date. The page’s displayed update date cannot date every paragraph.", "sources": [ "snapshot-nov", "snapshot-july" ] }, { "id": "index2025", "date": "2025-09", "label": "September 2025 · reported by the current UHCL guide", "year": 2025, "track": "access", "title": "Document-level search loses support", "finding": "UHCL says NASA stopped supporting the old JSC indexes. HawkWorks retains searchable typed series/section inventories, with less consistent document-level discovery.", "limit": "Search-interface loss does not by itself show that records were destroyed, withdrawn or untransferred.", "sources": [ "uhcl-index" ] }, { "id": "case2026", "date": "2026-11-12", "label": "12 November 2026 · Babylon inquiry", "year": 2026, "track": "case", "title": "UHCL replies; NASA clarification is pending", "finding": "Our existing inquiry received a policy/capacity response from UHCL. A focused clarification was sent to NASA History, copying UHCL, on the same day.", "limit": "No direct NASA decision, archive memorandum, exact custody match or formal FOIA submission is recorded in this case.", "sources": [ "uhcl-current" ], "case_url": "/research/nasa-archive-access/" } ], "comparison": [ { "topic": "Eligibility", "before": "Earlier guides describe public research and ITAR-conditioned eligibility.", "after": "The later guide lists particular NASA/UHCL categories and a NASA permission route.", "boundary": "The original signed eligibility instruction and independent-researcher criteria remain missing.", "sources": [ "guide1997", "guide2009", "snapshot-about", "snapshot-july", "uhcl-current" ] }, { "topic": "Remote access", "before": "The February 2024 guide offers possible electronic delivery of already-digitized records.", "after": "The current JSC guide requires onsite use and bars electronic sharing/reproduction.", "boundary": "Earlier remote help was conditional. We have not located the directive that fixes the exact date or scope of the copying change.", "sources": [ "snapshot-access", "uhcl-current" ] }, { "topic": "Export controls", "before": "Historical publications and guides already describe restricted information and review.", "after": "UHCL cites export controls and ITAR for its changed access conditions.", "boundary": "The generic legal framework is older than 2024. The missing step is its documented application to these holdings and specific records.", "sources": [ "tn1966", "oig2008", "export2017", "uhcl-current" ] }, { "topic": "Discoverability", "before": "The 1997 guide describes searchable correspondence fields; UHCL describes former document/folder indexes.", "after": "UHCL reports loss of index support in September 2025 and directs users to folder inventories.", "boundary": "The catalogue transition and the access decision are separate events.", "sources": [ "guide1997", "uhcl-index" ] }, { "topic": "Custody", "before": "Rice and later UHCL held selected material under agreements; some holdings were described as NARA-owned.", "after": "Current UHCL descriptions point researchers to NASA for access authority.", "boundary": "We need actual agreements, renewals and transfer references to locate each requested file today.", "sources": [ "guide1997", "newsletter2010", "uhcl-current", "nara255" ] } ], "gaps": [ { "id": "memo", "priority": 1, "record": "Final NASA memorandum and attachments", "needed": "Title, identifier, signature/issuing office, actual issue and effective dates, superseded rules, and records scope.", "why": "This is the missing bridge between the general export framework and the collection rule reported by UHCL.", "route": "NASA History / responsible records custodian; focused FOIA if informal clarification is insufficient." }, { "id": "rationale", "priority": 2, "record": "Approved implementation and release-review criteria", "needed": "Existing final instructions explaining category eligibility, copying, notes, international access and treatment of previously released material.", "why": "Determines whether there was an inventory finding, new risk assessment, administrative standardization or another documented trigger.", "route": "Request existing non-exempt final records; do not ask an agency to invent a retrospective explanation." }, { "id": "notice", "priority": 3, "record": "Communication and web-change record", "needed": "Existing transmittal to UHCL and final public-notice versions for the 2024–2025 change.", "why": "Reconciles the stated October 2024 effective month with the wording in the November capture.", "route": "NASA notice/transmittal records and UHCL’s public guide revision trail, if retained." }, { "id": "agreements", "priority": 4, "record": "1981 and 2001 agreements; subsequent renewals", "needed": "Signed instruments, schedules, current custody responsibilities and access/reproduction clauses.", "why": "Retrospective descriptions cannot substitute for the actual loan and legal-custody terms.", "route": "NASA, Rice, UHCL and NARA; confirm the custodian before duplicating requests." }, { "id": "transfers", "priority": 5, "record": "NARA transfers and digitization crosswalk", "needed": "Accession/transfer identifiers for the move planned by February 2012 and inventories of retained reference scans.", "why": "A plan is not proof of completion. Matching originals and reference copies may provide a separate lawful access path.", "route": "NASA JSC history records and NARA RG 255 reference staff." }, { "id": "item-review", "priority": 6, "record": "Decisions for the three Apollo record groups", "needed": "Custody match, file identifiers, release status, applicable legal authority and any separable releasable portions.", "why": "We still cannot tell whether the trajectory, entry inputs or technical dosimetry records are held in this collection.", "route": "Use the exact identifiers in the existing Apollo inquiry; do not infer a denial from a general policy reply." }, { "id": "catalogue", "priority": 7, "record": "Replacement index and identifier mapping", "needed": "Public catalogue location, migration status, surviving document identifiers and mapping to HawkWorks/NARA boxes.", "why": "Lost document-level discovery can prevent a sufficiently specific access request even when some records are releasable.", "route": "NASA Archives catalogue team and UHCL inventory guidance." } ], "prepared_scope": "NASA JSC history holdings at UHCL: existing policy and custody records\nResearch scope prepared 12 November 2026. NOT SUBMITTED AS A FOIA REQUEST.\n\nFor a future records request, identify the following existing records. Please supply releasable electronic copies and reasonably segregable non-exempt portions, identifying any applicable withholding authority. An existing record or referral is requested, not newly created research or an explanation.\n\n1. The final NASA Headquarters memorandum or directive described by the University of Houston-Clear Lake as governing changed access to the NASA Johnson Space Center History Collection, effective as of October 2024; its attachments, identifier, issuing office, signature, issue/effective dates and superseding amendments. Search subject terms: UHCL, University of Houston-Clear Lake, Johnson Space Center History Collection, JSC Archives, researcher access, reproduction. Relevant policy period: 1 January 2024 through 31 July 2025.\n\n2. Final approved implementation instructions and existing final decisions in that period covering researcher affiliation/eligibility, independent researchers, citizenship or foreign-person access, onsite use, notes, numerical transcription, photography, scanning, electronic copies, quotation/publication, and treatment of already publicly released materials. Include any final record identifying the applicable export-control provisions or item/series release-review criteria. We do not request privileged legal advice, private personnel records or protected medical information.\n\n3. The final policy transmittal to UHCL and any final public-notice versions in that period. Archived UHCL overview captures on 13 June and 8 November 2024 retain the older ITAR-conditioned formulation; the 16 July 2025 capture lists narrower categories as of October 2024. Please identify existing records that establish the issue, implementation and notification dates.\n\n4. Existing signed agreements and amendments governing this collection: the NASA JSC/Rice arrangement described as summer 1981; the JSC/NARA/UHCL memorandum described in NASA's Fourth Quarter 2010 history newsletter as signed 8 February 2001; and the agreement/renewal governing the holdings in October 2024. Include releasable schedules identifying ownership, legal custody, physical custody and access/reproduction responsibilities.\n\n5. Existing transfer/accession references and scan inventories for the NARA-owned materials described on p. 12 of that newsletter as planned for transfer from UHCL to Fort Worth by February 2012. Seek a container/identifier crosswalk, not a new item-by-item compilation. Also identify any existing public replacement-catalogue or migration-status record for the JSC indexes described by UHCL as unsupported from September 2025.\n\nKeep this policy/custody scope distinct from our three Apollo technical-record inquiries. Do not presume those files are held by UHCL. Please refer records outside your custody to the responsible office where known.\n\nBefore any formal submission, the requester must provide required contact information and choose a fee category, fee ceiling or supported waiver request. This scope authorizes no paid services and makes no fee commitment. Submit through NASA's official records-request route if needed, not through this website.\n", "note": "No private incoming emails, personal contact details, protected source copies or newly confirmed Apollo holdings." }