NASA Posts a Huge Library of Space Sounds, And You’re Free To Use Them

Space is the place. Again.

And SoundCloud is now a place you can find sounds from the US government space agency, NASA. In addition to the requisite vocal clips ("Houston, we've had a problem" and "The Eagle has landed"), you get a lot more. There are rocket sounds, the chirps of satellites and equipment, lightning on Jupiter, interstellar plasma and radio emissions. And in one nod to humanity, and not just American humanity, there’s the Soviet satellite Sputnik (among many projects that are international in nature).

Many of these sounds were available before... But putting them on SoundCloud makes them much easier to browse and find, and there are download links...

Another thing: you’re free to use all of these sounds as you wish, because NASA’s own audio isn't copyrighted. It’s meant to be a public service to the American people of their taxpayer-funded government program, but that extends to everyone.

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Sputnik

From BUSLIB:

For the 50th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik on October 4, 1957, the New York Times has published a series of articles in the Science Times series The Space Age.

NASA offers a timeline, links to primary documents, and more, while and other primary docs are available from the NARA/Eisenhower Library.

NewspaperArchive.com offers tens of thousands of FREE full text, full image articles on various topics organized into special collections. Articles are PDFs. Each collection has a timeline. They also offer most of their database of over 70 million articles for free to K-12 schools.

NewspaperArchive publishes a daily newsletter with articles
about that day in history.

Finally, What's That Sound?