UHCL JSC Archives

Around the year 2000, JSC entered into a partnership with UHCL to house a special JSC Collection within the UHCL Archive to make it available to the public for research and study. The JSC History Collection contains 1.5 million documents covering more than 50 years of NASA’s human spaceflight activities and is also home to the JSC Oral History Collection. This collection includes items donated directly from JSC in conjunction with the NASA JSC Archivist and from those that worked for NASA (civil servant and contractor). Your donation would be a very special gift to help preserve and tell our rich NASA story!

UHCL Finding Aids for Donated Collections

The UHCL Archive has added "Finding Aids" that improves the discoverability of files located within the archive for researchers.  This Neumann Library service called “LibGuides” allows for subject or other guides to be generated in a user-friendly way for library content for researchers’ assistance.  This work has added new finding aids, updated some biographical notes and collection descriptions/scope notes, reformatted some collection finding aids, and uploaded the updated finding aids for all the Human Space Flight Collection. Of note, not all donated private collections have been processed to this level given the backlog of donations that are being worked by archive personnel.  In addition, as you browse these collections and would like to provide feedback regarding this information or just have a question about this information please contact the archive directly at archives@uhcl.edu.  See these links for the LibGuides that are available:

https://uhcl.libguides.com/HumanSpaceFlight/FindingAidsAccess

https://uhcl.libguides.com/JSCHistoryCollection  

How to donate material to the UHCL JSC Archives

The UHCL Archive is always seeking your personal papers, books, photographs, brochures, correspondence, drawings, newsletters, journals, design, meeting minutes, and any personal mementos for inclusion in the JSC History Collection. No preparation on your part is required beyond making delivery of your items – the archive staff will receive your donation and will carefully systematize your donation to keep it in a preserved form that can be accessed by historians and researchers along with your family and descendants in the future. To schedule a donation or to find out more information about the Archive you can contact the them directly via email at archives@uhcl.edu or you can call 281-283-3962.

Additional online information about the UHCL Archives & Special Collections can be found at https://www.uhcl.edu/library/uhcl-archives.

The UHCL Archive located within the Alfred R. Neumann Library in the Bayou Building is free and open to the public M-F 8:30am – 4:30pm.

In support of this archiving work, please consider making a donation to the NAL-UHCL Endowment by clicking here.