posted October 06, 2005 09:50 AM               

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With the click of a mouse, the public can go to a local OfficeMax to pick up printed and collated copies of NASA mission and program data, pictures and other space-related information.

NASA and OfficeMax, Incorporated, Itasca, Ill., have partnered to get agency printed materials into the hands of students, educators and the public quickly and easily. Educators and NASA enthusiasts, who download documents from the agency's Web site, can have the large files printed at the closest OfficeMax store. OfficeMax Print and Document Services facilities are offering savings of up to 50 percent on all materials printed from the NASA Web site.

"This partnership with OfficeMax offers another creative avenue to ensure NASA's educational products are available quickly and efficiently for the public and teachers," said Joe Davis, Director of NASA's Strategic Communications Office.

Anyone can search free materials on NASA's Web site by visiting:
www.nasa.gov/education/materials

Teachers and other space enthusiasts can either print the materials themselves or click the new OfficeMax icon on the NASA Web site. The materials will be professionally copied and collated for delivery, shipping or available for next-day pick up at the nearest OfficeMax store. In many cases, materials are lengthy and have numerous color pictures and graphics, which can take hours to download.

"NASA offers a wide variety of educational resources to help teachers inspire students to learn more about science, and OfficeMax makes accessing those documents a little easier," said Sam Duncan, president and CEO of OfficeMax. "This partnership will save teachers a great deal of time by letting OfficeMax do the downloading and printing for them," he added.

Print and Document Services facilities are located inside all OfficeMax stores. They offer full-service digital printing, self-serve copying, custom printing and a full suite of binding and finishing services. With OfficeMax Print and Document Services' digital network, anyone can send files directly from their desktop to the nearest of OfficeMax's approximately 1,000 nationwide stores via the Web.

Through its Web site, NASA has made educational materials available to teachers since 1988. Teachers can download and print educator guides, classroom activities, posters, pictures, and information about science, technology, rocketry, planets and engineering. Since NASA's new Web Portal opened in 2003, more than 3.4 billion page views have been recorded.

NASA's education programs inspire and motivate students to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics by supporting activities in the nation's schools, and distributing information through instructional and outreach products.

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posted October 09, 2005 12:27 AM               

NASA has been following a policy to outsource the distribution of photos to individuals for years. No more glossies to journalists, no more lithos for the individual fan, both please go visit the website and print it with your local or photoshop. What they presently do at JSC is just liquidating stocks from the past.

So - if you want photographic NASA material, go to the downloading areas and print it yourself. Sending out lithographs is a dying business for NASA. End of story.

posted October 09, 2005 12:45 AM               

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no more lithos for the individual fan, both please go visit the website and print it with your local or photoshop. What they presently do at JSC is just liquidating stocks from the past

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this is the answer. They haven't answer my four letters this year for the 2004 astronauts.

posted October 09, 2005 01:31 PM               

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2004 astronauts only got their lithos fairly recently

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language barrier....menaing some just had now their individual portraits photographed by JSC photographer?

I have asked for others individual updated photos seen on KSC mission photo gallery. These have gone unanswered.

According to few others, class of 2004 are given to people who call or fax their request, so why letter request are gone unaswered.

posted October 09, 2005 02:39 PM               

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Originally posted by lunarrv15:
language barrier....menaing some just had now their individual portraits photographed by JSC photographer?

I have asked for others individual updated photos seen on KSC mission photo gallery. These have gone unanswered.

According to few others, class of 2004 are given to people who call or fax their request, so why letter request are gone unaswered.

Courteous note at least of why they are not available like KSC does.

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In what language did you write to JSC?

For KSC imagery, you would have to address yourself to the KSC Media Resources Center anyway. JSC can't help you there. That's two different services.

In any case, the general public is only given lithos. Lithos are only produced of some particularly popular photos.

Glossies are only given out to accredited or otherwise legitimized press representatives. The general public can get glossies of those by going through NASA authorized labs or download the high resolution files and have them printed at a lab of their choice. All this is explained on the KSC Image gallery website.

General rule: it does not help to ask what they do not have, and it does not help either to get pushy asking for what they cannot provide in the first place.

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Jürgen P Esders
Berlin, Germany http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Astroaddies

posted October 11, 2005 10:32 AM               

The company name should be NASA.

I replied to an office max email, and awaiting a response.
I only see very few education guides, no selection of the extensive NASA photo selection. Am I interpreting this wrong?

posted October 11, 2005 11:17 AM               

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Kind Regards

Douglas Henry

posted October 13, 2005 09:42 AM               

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Originally posted by bruce:
OK folks, here's the big helpful clue that hasn't been mentioned here. Per the instructions in the New Users Guide pdf, under "Company Name", enter NASA (not YOUR freakin' company! - geeez!). Every comes up roses after that.

Best,
Bruce

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Oooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Thank you Bruce!

Being an IT tech for over twenty years, I never had much use for reading instructions.

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Kind Regards

Douglas Henry

posted October 14, 2005 10:59 AM               

wonder where is the next Office Max around here