People, missions, vehicles, events, and terms link to one another without replacing each record's sourced history.
Census first, cards next
A canonical archive identity establishes that a subject belongs in the census; a reader-facing card or page is a separate presentation layer that expands from that foundation.
Professional, private, and unflown
Professional and private describe selection paths. Unflown means no documented launch into space, even when training or assignments exist.
Sources before certainty
Official and institutional sources come first. Missing evidence stays missing instead of being invented.
Names remain findable
Supported names and diacritics are preserved. Verified alternate spellings remain searchable without merging uncertain identities.
Real photographs, truthful labels
No generated substitutes. Exact, related, and unresolved images are labeled according to the evidence.
Exact insignia only
Mission patches must match the named mission and pass source review. A mission photograph is never presented as its insignia.
Reader participation
How passport awards work
The archive passport is optional. It starts in your browser and records broad collection, journey, and award IDs rather than a history of pages you read. Visit awards count distinct UTC days; missed days do not reset progress. Calendar awards use sourced reading lists for observances such as Black History Month, Women’s History Month, and the Apollo 1, Challenger, and Columbia anniversaries.
To earn a calendar patch, check in during its UTC window, open every linked archive record, and choose “Finish” after reading. Completion is reported by the visitor; the site does not measure reading time or claim to prove an article was read. A finished patch saves its award ID and UTC earned date. If account sync is available, you choose when to save your browser passport to that account.
Firsts trails connect specific milestones to the person, mission, and historical context behind them. “First” always names its scope, such as first human in space or first woman to command a shuttle. These trails can be finished at any time; memorial reading lists appear only on their anniversary dates. Remembrance patches are invitations to learn about the crews and safety history, not measures of grief.
Passport award patches are original illustrations made for this archive. They are separate from the sourced mission insignia shown on mission records and are not official NASA or agency patches.
When daily archive email is available, it requires a separate opt-in from a linked account with a verified address. Messages pair an editor-selected archive story with a source and a passport link. Receiving or opening an email does not count as a visit or complete a reading award, and every message includes an unsubscribe link.
Special awards are discretionary account recognition from the archive owner. The owner’s Atlas Keeper patch belongs only to that account; other special patches are granted individually. Recipients can hide or decline a patch without erasing their passport. A declined patch cannot be granted again until its recipient clears that choice. Awards are not assigned from guesses about a person’s identity or browsing activity. Account names and username filters stay in the private owner workspace; there is no public directory or leaderboard. Any future public badge display would require the recipient’s opt-in.
The total-space census currently contains 190,564 canonical identities across 29 record types. That count describes the machine-readable foundation, not 190,564 finished reader-facing cards.
Canonical identity
A stable, typed record with provenance, relationships, completeness state, and conflict-safe identifiers.
Reader-facing card or page
The preferred presentation for a person, mission, object, place, organization, event, or other subject that readers can meaningfully explore.
Explicit disposition
Highly granular records may be grouped under a parent or represented through a collection, but they are never silently omitted.
Every canonical identity has an audited target disposition and an exact enrichment and photo state. Twenty-nine bounded cohorts have now completed 84,544 deep reviews; both the first-deep standalone queue and the deeper quality-equivalence queue are zero. Cohorts 025–027 close the space-object pass across 31,982 standalone records. Terminal cohort 028 retains its frozen 21,451-record boundary across nineteen other archive classes, and cohort 029 reviews 2,023 later source records. Cohort 028 preserves 42,902 narrative paragraphs, 128,706 fact fields, 117,853 exact relationships, and 36,761 retained source links without inventing absent facts or links. Research ledgers remain internal. Public pages lead with the subject’s history, useful facts, relationships, sources, and imagery instead of review-state terminology or redundant source claims. Granular fragments remain inside public parent collections unless significance supports promotion: all 126 rare-status physical-stage candidates received individual review, 38 consequential collision, orbital-explosion, or failed-recovery histories were promoted to standalone cards, and the other 66,756 physical stages remain searchable parent-linked rows. A missing photograph does not block a card, and unresolved imagery retains an honest compact no-image state.
Photos must pass identity, date, visible-phase, source, rights, size, credit, visual, checksum, and NAS checks.
Exact
Shows the named event and phase.
Related
Shows the mission, but not the exact event.
Evidence hold
No defensible real photo is available yet.
Launch-photo review completed August 14, 2026
All 635 records are reconciled: 262 exact photos, 373 evidence holds, and zero active research items.
Current archive-wide photo inventory
The current census separates 3,589 exact reviewed-image identities, 15,933 contextual mission or related-image identities, 32,709 representative vehicle or family-image identities, and 26,586 reviewed no-publishable-image dispositions. Another 14,476 identities are not display-photo eligible, 2,938 retain terminal evidence or review holds, and 1 standalone record still requires qualified-source photo review. The remaining 94,332 physical or family records retain their audited parent or representative treatment until significance or exact imagery supports promotion. Reuse assignments retain the original approved asset, source, rights review, checksum, NAS master, and responsive derivatives. Cards visibly label contextual and representative images, while detail pages explain what the photograph depicts and what it does not claim to depict. Exact imagery always takes precedence when it becomes available.
NAS preservation and public delivery are separate checks. A staged image is not described as available from the public media origin until its file, database record, checksum, derivative URLs, and delivery canaries are verified. Existing static or source-hosted images and honest no-image states remain available during that rollout.
Corrections and review
Send the page, disputed text, reason, and an official source. Corrections are checked across connected records before publication; source changes create review tasks rather than automatic rewrites.
Material changes by date. Open an entry for details.
Dated archive updates
Expanded archive review and reader navigation
Published the latest archive enrichment and reader-experience work, including completed deep-card review, clearer collection navigation, and a fully dispositioned evidence-triggered photo queue.
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The current census reconciles 190,564 canonical identities across 29 record types, with 84,544 completed deep reviews and no standalone card waiting for a first or deeper editorial pass.
Completed evidence-triggered photo rechecks for 41,252 records. Approved images keep exact or visibly disclosed contextual relationships; searches without a qualified image retain an explicit hold.
The reader experience now separates Spaceflight Figures from organizations, gives launches decade-first entry points, groups events by era, and makes Space Objects a primary navigation destination without merging distinct identities.
NAS staging preserves reviewed originals and derivatives but does not establish public availability. Newly staged media remains outside the live public index until the separate origin activation and delivery checks pass.
Evidence-triggered photo rechecks proceed in complete batches
Closed 1,200 photo rechecks through discovery, visual review, source and rights verification, derivatives, NAS staging, card registration, and final audit.
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Promoted five exact reviewed photographs for Fallen Astronaut, the Space Mirror Memorial, the NASA Art Program, From the Earth to the Moon, and the Partial Test Ban Treaty.
Generated and checksum-verified 23 responsive derivatives while preserving the five reviewed originals and their source, rights, credit, and processing disclosures.
Rejected eight misleading, non-photographic, or wrong-edition candidates and preserved 22 provider failures as explicit holds rather than claiming that no image exists.
The second pass promoted NASA frame ISS075-E-3182 for Expedition 75 with five responsive derivatives, rejected eight false matches or diagrams, closed 69 no-match searches, and retained 22 provider holds.
Completed ten additional 100-record passes, promoting exact or defensible contextual photographs for Progress-M 34, the AMS-02 installation, and the STS-119 S6 installation while rejecting 26 downloaded false matches and preserving provider failures as explicit holds.
Improved chronology searches by pairing generic event labels with their mission identifiers, sharply reducing title collisions without relaxing identity, photographic-medium, rights, or visual-review requirements.
Removed all 1,200 completed records from the active evidence-recheck queue, leaving 40,054, and connected nine total promoted assets from the recheck program to their reader-facing cards.
Archive-wide editorial quality pass closes
Completed every remaining deeper editorial review across all reader-facing archive classes, closing the quality-equivalence queue at zero without fabricating missing facts, relationships, sources, or imagery.
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Reviewed all 126 rare-status physical-stage candidates against the catalog's phase-status definitions and closed the significance-research queue at zero.
Promoted 34 orbital-explosion records, two collision records, and two failed-recovery records to stable standalone cards with exact launch, event, technical, relationship, and source context.
Retained 88 reviewed candidates whose attachment, launch-failure, uncertain-reentry, or lost-tracking status did not independently justify promotion; together with the automated triage, 66,756 physical stages remain parent-linked rows.
Completed card-enrichment cohort 025 across 10,000 space-object records with 10,000 unique summaries, 20,000 narrative paragraphs, 140,000 fact fields, 19,972 exact relationships, and 10,000 readable catalog references.
Disambiguated 1,610 same-named physical records with their source JCAT identity while preserving program-family grouping and individual canonical routes.
Completed cohort 026 across the next 10,000 non-overlapping space-object records, prioritizing the sparsest evidence profiles and adding 20,000 narrative paragraphs, 140,000 fact fields, 20,000 exact relationships, and 10,000 readable catalog references.
Completed terminal cohort 027 across all 11,982 remaining space-object cards with 23,964 narrative paragraphs, 167,748 fact fields, 23,964 exact relationships, 11,982 readable references, zero overlap, and zero remaining space-object editorial candidates.
Completed terminal cohort 028 across the final 21,451 records in nineteen archive classes, including 5,615 launch-system designs, 4,072 payloads and instruments, 2,028 places, 979 orbital-fragment families, 873 launches, and 7,157 supporting source pages.
The terminal review preserves 42,902 narrative paragraphs, 128,706 public fact fields, 117,853 exact relationships, 36,747 retained source links, and every existing terminal media state.
Reconciled the archive-wide census to 82,521 completed deep reviews, zero first-deep records, and zero summary-enriched records still requiring deeper editorial review.
Re-reviewed all 1,096 candidate-page records by title root and semantic role, assigning 1,038 contextual mission images and 58 representative family images through 317 existing approved assets.
The UI now distinguishes exact, contextual mission, representative family, and no-image states; non-exact images carry a visible disclosure and the original asset identity, source, rights review, and checksum remain unchanged.
The photo census now records 17,754 reviewed no-publishable-image dispositions and 56,460 active records, which next require title and family clustering before new-source discovery is assumed.
Clustered the full 56,460-record active photo queue into 2,102 repeated launch-vehicle and numbered-hardware families covering 41,067 cards, reducing the practical research boundary to 17,495 family and singleton subjects.
First-deep enrichment reaches every standalone archive card
Completed the remaining 15,428 standalone cards, corrected granular child and authority rows to their intended parent collections, and reduced the exact first-deep queue to zero without inventing facts, relationships, citations, or imagery.
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Completed event cohort 008 across the remaining 164 records that met the established multi-sentence narrative, two-source, two-relationship, useful-fact, and public-route prerequisites.
Added 529 event-history paragraphs, 829 public facts, 431 connected records, and 472 readable references; 141 cards retain exact reviewed images and 23 use the compact no-image state.
Completed launch cohort 009 across 836 historically ordered attempts with 836 distinct titles and summaries, 1,672 technical and historical paragraphs, 6,689 facts, 2,812 relationships, and 1,672 readable references.
Replaced the front-facing launch evidence ledger and redundant evidence badge on the enriched launch pages with reader-focused context and facts.
Reconciled the 185,422-identity census to 1,624 completed deep reviews and 55,083 untouched first-pass records without changing the 103,434-record photo-review total.
Kept all 836 launch cards in an honest compact no-image state because no approved exact launch-attempt image is registered for those census identities.
Completed launch cohort 010 across the next 2,000 eligible attempts without overlap, adding 4,000 technical and historical paragraphs, 16,020 facts, 7,520 relationships, and 4,000 readable references.
Reconciled the census to 3,624 completed deep reviews and 53,083 untouched first-pass records while retaining the exact 103,434-record standalone photo-review total.
Completed launch cohorts 011–015 across the next 10,000 historically ordered attempts with zero overlap, adding 20,000 technical and historical paragraphs, 80,056 facts, 32,236 relationships, and 10,000 readable references.
Kept source scarcity explicit: each new card has at least one surviving readable catalog reference and two meaningful relationships, with no duplicated or invented second citation.
Reconciled the census to 13,624 completed deep reviews and 43,083 initially classified first-pass records.
Completed launch cohorts 016–022 across the final 13,445 standalone launch cards and event cohort 023 across the final 1,213 public event cards.
Verified the existing deep-card quality floor for the final 700 vehicle and 70 place cards in cohort 024.
Corrected 27,107 orbital-debris fragments, 469 planetary surface-event components, and 108 external catalog authorities to reviewed parent-contained treatment instead of manufacturing standalone cards for granular rows.
Closed the first-deep standalone queue at zero: 29,052 identities now have a completed deep review, while 52,333 summary-enriched records remain in the separate quality-equivalence editorial pass.
Reconciled the photo program to 2,923 approved images, 75,858 standalone photo reviews, and 94,370 promotion-dependent parent or child rows.
Completed the first archive-wide photo cohort by reviewing nine exact celestial-target candidates, publishing rights-cleared spacecraft photographs of 67P, Uranus, and Neptune, and retaining six explicit partner-rights holds. Three masters, 15 responsive derivatives, and the cohort manifest passed mounted-NAS checksum verification; the census now records 2,926 approved images and 75,855 standalone photo reviews.
Reconciled the six new approved source records and three media identities into the full 185,431-identity archive graph; all nine are correctly non-photo-eligible, so the standalone photo-review queue remains 75,855.
Completed celestial-target photo cohort 004 with exact NASA observations of Earth, the Moon, Mars, and the Sun; all four passed source-rights, original-resolution identity, composition, alt-text, processing-disclosure, checksum, NAS, and responsive-delivery review.
Added four masters and twenty derivatives, verified all twenty-five cohort NAS objects idempotently, and reconciled eight new source identities plus four media identities into the 185,443-record graph. The photo census then recorded 2,930 approved images and 75,851 remaining standalone reviews.
Completed celestial-target photo cohort 005 with exact NASA-hosted observations of Jupiter, Mercury, Bennu, Eros, and Pluto; rejected two misleading queue links because they pictured a JUICE instrument test and the OSIRIS-REx launch rather than the named targets.
Added five masters and twenty-four responsive derivatives, verified all thirty cohort NAS objects idempotently, preserved mosaic and enhanced-color disclosures, and reconciled ten new source identities plus five media identities into the 185,458-record graph. The photo census then recorded 2,935 approved images and 75,846 remaining standalone reviews.
Completed celestial-target photo cohort 006 by resolving the six prior partner-heavy holds with exact NASA-hosted observations of Tempel 1, Ceres, Didymos, Phobos, Titan, and Vesta; every file passed original-resolution identity, composition, source-rights, caption, alternative-text, and processing-disclosure review.
Added six checksum-bound masters and twenty-nine responsive derivatives to the NAS, updated twelve source records and six science-card media bindings, and reduced the synchronized queue to 2,941 approved images and 75,840 remaining standalone photo reviews.
Completed celestial-target photo cohort 007 with exact NASA-hosted observations of Venus, Saturn, and Halley; the visible processing disclosures distinguish Venus's simulated radar globe, Saturn's natural-color RGB composite and adjusted moon brightness, and Halley's enhanced Giotto observation.
Added three checksum-bound masters and fifteen responsive derivatives to the NAS, reconciled six source records and three media identities, and reduced the synchronized queue to 2,944 approved images and 75,837 remaining standalone photo reviews.
Completed celestial-target photo cohort 008 with exact Hayabusa observations of Itokawa and Ryugu from authoritative JAXA records; retained the embedded JAXA/ISAS credit on Itokawa and JAXA's full collaborating-institutions credit on Ryugu under the agency's informational-use policy.
Added two checksum-bound masters and seven aspect-ratio-preserving responsive derivatives to the NAS, reconciled four source records and two media identities, and reduced the synchronized queue to 2,946 approved images and 75,835 remaining standalone photo reviews.
Completed celestial-target photo cohort 009 with an exact 5,763-pixel NASA STS-63 photograph of Mir; recorded Salyut 6 and Salyut 7 as explicit holds because the available results were unrelated, diagrammatic, too small, edited, or lacked defensible Soviet-origin reuse provenance.
Added the checksum-bound Mir master and five responsive derivatives to the NAS, rejected ten mismatched inherited queue links, reconciled two source records and one media identity, and reduced the synchronized queue to 2,947 approved images and 75,834 remaining standalone photo reviews.
Opened program-card photography in cohort 010 with exact reviewed photographs for the International Space Station, Space Shuttle, Apollo, and Dyna-Soar from NASA and U.S. Air Force records; all four passed rights, full-resolution visual, caption, alternative-text, processing-disclosure, checksum, and delivery review.
Added four checksum-bound masters and eighteen responsive derivatives to the NAS, registered eight source records and four program media identities, promoted the reviewed photographs into the public program-page hero position, and reduced the synchronized queue to 2,951 approved images and 75,830 remaining standalone photo reviews.
Completed program-photo cohort 011 with separate program-level identity, composition, caption, and rights review for Mir, X-15, Soyuz, SpaceShipOne, Shenzhou, Voskhod, and Buran; full-resolution review corrected an inherited SpaceShipOne flight-phase description before publication.
Added seven checksum-bound masters, thirty-five responsive derivatives, fourteen source records, and seven program media identities; verified the NAS manifest and reduced the synchronized queue to 2,958 approved images and 75,823 remaining standalone photo reviews.
Completed program-photo cohort 012 with separate identity, rights, composition, caption, and full-resolution review for Apollo-Soyuz, Blue Origin, Commercial Crew Program, Commercial Orbital Spaceflight, Project Gemini, Project Mercury, Skylab, SpaceShipTwo, Virgin Galactic, and Vostok.
Added ten checksum-bound masters, fifty responsive derivatives, twenty source records, and ten program media identities; rejected changed live publisher binaries in favor of their checksum-verified preserved masters and reduced the synchronized queue to 2,968 approved images and 75,813 remaining standalone photo reviews.
Completed program-photo cohort 013 with an exact NASA Artemis I launch photograph for Artemis and explicit no-image holds for Integrated Space Transportation Plan and Salyut, closing the first photo-review pass across all 24 program cards.
Added one checksum-bound master, five responsive derivatives, two source records, and one program media identity; verified the NAS manifest and reduced the synchronized queue to 2,969 approved images and 75,812 remaining standalone photo reviews.
Completed scientific-result photo cohort 014 with ten exact NASA and NOAA mission-produced observations spanning Nimbus 7 ozone mapping, GOES and TIROS Earth imagery, Kepler and WISE first light, and Ranger 9 lunar-descent frames.
Added ten checksum-bound masters and forty-nine responsive derivatives, corrected the shared census to recognize every routed science-media class, and reduced the synchronized queue to 2,979 approved images and 75,802 remaining standalone photo reviews.
Completed scientific-result photo cohort 015 with ten separately bound NASA and NOAA observations or operational-outcome photographs for Nimbus 7, TIROS-10, Ranger 8, HTV-1, SpaceX CRS-3, SpaceX CRS-5, Cygnus OA-4, and ISS Progress 67.
Added ten checksum-bound destination masters and forty-seven responsive derivatives from eight previously approved source masters, retained separate card-level review trails for shared mission imagery, and reduced the synchronized queue to 2,989 approved images and 75,792 remaining standalone photo reviews.
Completed scientific-result photo cohort 016 with ten exact NASA experiment, deployment, approach, docking, and Earth-observation photographs spanning Cygnus, Progress, Compton, Ulysses, and SpaceX CRS-5.
Added ten checksum-bound masters and fifty responsive derivatives, corrected the inherited Cygnus OA-7 Saffire-III caption and alternative text, and reduced the synchronized queue to 2,999 approved images and 75,782 remaining standalone photo reviews.
Completed scientific-result photo cohort 017 with ten exact NASA surface-operation, EVA, recovery, experiment, observatory, and payload-deployment photographs spanning Apollo 8, Apollo 11, Apollo 17, Gemini 5, and six Shuttle missions.
Added ten checksum-bound masters and fifty responsive derivatives, replaced inherited boilerplate alternative text for the STS-41-G SIR-B deployment, and reduced the synchronized queue to 3,009 approved images and 75,772 remaining standalone photo reviews.
Completed science-card photo cohort 018 with ten exact NASA Shuttle experiment, observatory, free-flyer, and payload-deployment photographs across eight scientific-result cards and two held observing-program cards.
Added ten checksum-bound masters and forty-nine responsive derivatives, corrected four initial bindings before synchronization so every approved asset resolves to a real canonical science card, and reduced the synchronized standalone queue to 3,017 approved images and 75,764 remaining photo reviews.
Completed scientific-result photo cohort 019 with ten exact NASA spacecraft, experiment, crew-operation, and mission-outcome photographs spanning AIMP-2, COBE, TRACE, XRISM, and six Shuttle missions.
Added ten checksum-bound masters and forty-eight responsive derivatives, rejected a DART source whose live bytes had drifted without an available preserved master, and reduced the synchronized queue to 3,027 approved images and 75,754 remaining photo reviews.
Completed scientific-result photo cohort 020 with ten exact NASA spacecraft, integration, test, checkout, and launch photographs spanning Explorer 7, IBEX, Webb, NuSTAR, SAS-1, IMP-3, Helios 1, Pegasus 2, OSO-6, and Vanguard SLV-2.
Added ten checksum-bound masters and forty-nine responsive derivatives, rejected an OGO-6 source whose live bytes had drifted without an available preserved master, and reduced the synchronized queue to 3,037 approved images and 75,744 remaining photo reviews.
Completed scientific-result photo cohort 021 with ten exact ESA, NASA, U.S. Navy, and San Diego Air & Space Museum spacecraft, launch, integration, and mission-produced observation records spanning CHEOPS, CoRoT, FUSE, Gaia, HEAO-2, INTEGRAL, IUE, Helios 2, IMP-6, and Transit 1B.
Added ten checksum-bound destination masters and forty-nine responsive derivatives, preserved a superseded overlap manifest after detecting that Kepler was already complete in cohort 014, and reduced the synchronized queue to 3,047 approved images and 75,734 remaining photo reviews.
Completed scientific-result photo cohort 022 with ten exact NASA spacecraft, flight-hardware, payload-handling, and launch photographs spanning OSO-6, Landsat 3, Landsat 8, Landsat 9, MOL OPS 0855, Pegasus 3, SpaceX CRS-11, STS-44, STS-85, and Vanguard 3.
Added ten checksum-bound masters and forty-eight responsive derivatives and reduced the synchronized queue to 3,057 approved images and 75,724 remaining photo reviews.
Universal search and archive cross-navigation reach every public class
Expanded the reader-facing search contract to 21 explicit result classes, opened the reviewed source library, and added deterministic coverage, return-navigation, route, crawler, and performance gates across the public presentation layer.
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Built a checksum-bound enrichment and photo census across all 185,422 identities, separating established dossiers, deeper editorial work, parent rows, significance review, terminal holds, approved images, and photo-review work without aggregate subtraction.
Completed source and reference enrichment cohorts covering 10,912 additional presentation surfaces with unique summaries, readable classifications, relationships, and evidence links.
Completed deep-enrichment cohort 005 across all 24 canonical program-history cards, exposing eight evidence fields per program, 619 mission links, 948 event links, 65 decision-event links, 509 readable reviewed sources, and explicit program-photo review states.
Completed deep-enrichment cohort 006 across 100 milestone-event cards spanning 1961 through 1990, with 100 distinct concise leads, 104 supporting historical paragraphs, 453 public facts, 286 connected-record relationships, 242 quiet authority references, and 100 approved reviewed images; internal evidence and review-state language stays out of the public presentation.
Triaged all 66,794 physical-stage children, retaining 66,668 parent rows and placing 126 rare-status records into a bounded human significance-research queue without treating a status code as proof of importance.
Reconciled 103,434 standalone photo-review records, found existing candidate pages for 1,900 identities, and completed exact-subject NASA or ESA discovery for nine celestial targets while approving no image prematurely.
Indexed 148,036 non-person presentation records through their canonical cards or declared parent-linked rows, including all 27,155 launches, 31,986 space objects, 5,615 launch-system designs, 66,794 physical stages, 4,072 payloads, 2,158 places, 271 organizations, 6,058 sources, 151 datasets, and 1,280 topics.
Separated sources, datasets, topics, payloads, organizations, places, and launch systems into explicit search classes so complete query totals and useful class filters no longer hide those records under generic reference or science labels.
Made search fail closed when any required class index is unavailable instead of reporting plausible but partial totals.
Opened a searchable 6,058-record source library with stable source details, public HTTPS destinations, exact reverse media and reference relationships, and honest non-custody language.
Preserved universal-search return context across source, organization, launch-system, and existing detail routes, including safely encoded internal return values.
Moved source-detail relationships and enrichment into a checksum-audited 493 KB compressed artifact, reducing the source route trace from 9.62 MB to 2.43 MB while keeping the public directory wire at 1.38 MB through derived prose and classifications.
Added a deterministic universal-search and cross-navigation report, version-7 search wire compatibility, source-route compute and crawler shields, and independent raw, gzip, and Brotli budgets.
Verified the production build at 266 prebuilt routes and rendered a representative source query with exact three-result totals across vehicle, organization, and source filters.
The remaining archive collections become browsable and begin enrichment
Opened the remaining frozen archive identities through shared cards and parent-linked rows, then deepened the first 7,270-card cohort with record-specific narrative, readable sources, and routed relationships while preserving evidence boundaries.
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Added shared-contract cards and stable detail pages for 674 vehicle families, 1,833 configurations, 1,622 stage designs, and 1,486 engine designs.
Connected configuration pages to exact launch histories by year and preserved manufacturer, lifecycle, technical, and relationship evidence without inferring retirement.
Kept all 66,794 physical stage objects as lazy parent-linked collection rows; every object resolves to a configuration and 62,010 also resolve to a stage design.
Preserved 4,784 configuration-only physical stages and labeled repeated serials as review leads rather than claims of physical reuse.
Counted 500 references to 32 source-only fairings, adapters, reentry vehicles, payload sections, or engines without inventing broken target pages.
Added deterministic checksums, exact census and presentation tests, exact launch-vehicle URL filters, and independent raw, gzip, and Brotli budgets for both compact indexes.
Kept the production build inside the unchanged compute, response-file, JavaScript, and 330 MB generated-output ceilings by using client-only data browsers and the existing one-year on-demand static fallback for three lower-priority curated vehicle pages.
Opened one combined people-and-institutions collection for all 47 reviewed Spaceflight Figures and all 271 canonical organizations, with organization search, exact evidence and relationship filters, and 24-card pagination.
Connected all 110 contributor affiliation labels to exact canonical organization routes and preserved bidirectional mission, contributor, and launch-year navigation without fuzzy name inference.
Separated the institution census boundary from the stricter shared-card boundary: 44 organizations have both sources and meaningful relationships, 227 remain visible presentation evidence holds, and the 27 narrower source-discovery holds stay explicit.
Added checksum reconciliation, mapping and filter tests, and independent 155 kB raw, 30 kB gzip, and 23 kB Brotli ceilings for the organization directory index.
Opened all 2,158 canonical place identities through one infrastructure directory: 312 launch sites, 1,529 launch points or pads, 52 mobile platforms, 195 source-preserved control labels, and 70 curated extensions.
Connected place details to parent sites, exact annual launch histories, controlled space objects, and source evidence while refusing to infer facilities, organizations, or coordinates from control labels.
Kept 117 station elements and 19,337 space-based network nodes in the existing space-object presentation so physical hardware does not acquire duplicate cards.
Added infrastructure to universal search, bounded its compact index at 650 kB raw, 70 kB gzip, and 50 kB Brotli, and declared its one-year on-demand detail routes in the compute and crawler policies.
Opened a unified science directory across 5,187 canonical observatories, instruments, programs, results, archive authorities, Earth-data collections, celestial targets, planetary operations, samples, and controlled subjects.
Reused all existing observatory, instrument, and topic routes while adding 821 stable science detail records with 12,508 exact graph relationships and 17,636 source relationships.
Kept objectives separate from documented outcomes, failures visible, and specialist product, observation, proposal, and publication identifiers native to their responsible archives.
Added science to universal search and bounded its compact index at 2.7 MB raw, 235 kB gzip, and 150 kB Brotli with one-year on-demand detail routes and crawler shields.
Opened a 937-record safety directory across 874 adverse launches, 55 incidents, three documented responses, and five investigation authorities while reusing canonical launch and event routes.
Opened 995 standalone orbital-environment cards across 979 fragment families, nine milestones, and seven authorities, with stable one-year on-demand detail routes.
Preserved all 28,686 debris identities as searchable child rows: 28,684 retain exact parent-family links and two remain explicit ungrouped evidence holds rather than receiving invented parents.
Added safety and orbital-environment records to universal search and declared deterministic identity, relationship, source, route, crawler, compute, and raw/gzip/Brotli performance boundaries.
Opened 88 law, policy, economics, authority, and program-decision cards with exact routes or existing program destinations while keeping legal lifecycle states and all 24 budget evidence holds distinct.
Opened 63 culture, public-memory, and collection-authority cards, including 39 reviewed core records and 16 inherited canonical identities, while preserving interpretation, rights, preservation, and historical-evidence boundaries.
Completed local pass-one base presentation coverage across the backlog collections and integrated the final two directories into universal search, bounded pagination, crawler shields, and compute policy.
Gave all 7,270 measured law, policy, culture, science, safety, and orbital cards summaries of at least 90 characters composed from their own canonical fields and existing evidence relationships.
Kept every law, culture, safety, and orbital summary unique to its record; 5,183 of 5,187 science summaries are unique and none appears more than twice.
Replaced raw source identifiers on owned detail records with 4,556 readable titles, publishers, and public HTTPS destinations.
Verified public routes for all 32,112 measured relationships across society, science, safety, and orbital detail records.
Added existing-field context to shared launch, space-object, launch-system, organization, and infrastructure summaries.
Added a deterministic cohort audit that fails on count drift, weak or repetitive narrative, unreadable source links, or unrouted relationships.
Encoded repeated directory-summary language through versioned wire dictionaries, preserving the full reader-facing prose while keeping every existing raw, gzip, and Brotli delivery ceiling intact.
Deepened a second 67,185-card cohort across launches, space objects, launch systems, organizations, and infrastructure; every summary now carries a source-native distinguishing identity or fact and is unique within its cohort.
Replaced bare numeric and generic display titles with source-native census identities, JCAT placeholder dispositions, configuration variants, or launch-point codes where the original title alone could not distinguish the record.
Preserved missing facts, field-level citations, reviewed media, and significant child-card promotion as explicit work for later source-bounded cohorts; no external claim or image was inferred.
Archive programs close and the total-space identity foundation opens
Published eight connected human-spaceflight registries plus the universal scope, stable identities, completeness levels, conflict rules, and the next reader-facing presentation phase for the broader total-space archive.
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Every one of the 619 reviewed census missions now has eight terminal dispositions without inventing missing facts, coordinates, rights, or transcript locators.
Indexed 1,507 hardware records, 70 places, 9,540 source and media holdings, 4,072 payload or experiment records, 271 organizations, 24 program histories, and eight authoritative communications collections or resources.
Added a checksum-bearing living-archive manifest and a fail-closed generator check to local and production builds.
Published the completion contracts and evidence boundaries on the methodology surface.
Established ten universal subject classes, five record-level completeness levels, 15 identifier namespaces, and a machine-readable identity schema.
Reconciled 22,631 current identities with zero duplicate canonical IDs or schema-pattern failures; unsourced legacy identities remain explicit evidence holds.
Published a compact coverage dashboard while preserving alias and external-identifier collisions as review queues rather than automatic merges.
Closed the frozen all-launch census at 27,155 space-related records across 81 annual shards, with 31,808 payload-manifest rows and 3,059 retained GCAT citation references.
Excluded routine missile tests and lower-atmosphere rockets, and dispositioned all 1,306 existing mission dossiers as matched launches, source-backed extensions, or correctly separated non-launch identities.
Integrated the launch ledger into the universal graph, expanding the identity baseline to 48,480 records and adding the GCAT launch-tag namespace.
Closed the frozen spacecraft, satellite, and payload census at 31,986 public space-object identities, including failed-to-orbit, deep-space, commercial, scientific, public defense, educational, and 3,259 CubeSat records or programs.
Reconciled all 1,507 existing hardware and 4,072 payload or experiment records to global objects, mission connections, or source-backed extensions without unsafe name-only merges.
Expanded the universal graph to 79,682 identities and 19 identifier namespaces with zero duplicate canonical IDs, duplicate type/slug pairs, or schema failures.
Closed the launch-system and propulsion census with 674 families, 1,833 configurations, 1,622 stage designs, 1,486 engine designs, 4,742 stack relationships, and 66,794 individual rocket-stage objects.
Mapped every included GCAT launch to a configuration while preserving 583 repeated-serial groups as reuse-review leads and refusing to infer retirement from a last flight.
Expanded the universal graph to 152,068 identities with zero duplicate canonical IDs, duplicate type/slug pairs, or schema failures.
Closed the stations, infrastructure, and operational-networks census at 312 launch sites, 1,529 launch points, 52 platforms, 195 control locations, 117 station elements, and 19,337 space-based network nodes.
Kept the space-only launch boundary intact, preserved coordinate and control-label uncertainty, and reconciled every curated facility and station-hardware record.
Expanded the universal graph to 154,156 identities with zero duplicate canonical IDs, duplicate type/slug pairs, or schema failures.
Closed the planetary exploration boundary across 414 spacecraft and all 469 GCAT landing, impact, entry, decay, and failed-target records, including repeated touchdowns as distinct events.
Connected 170 surface operations, 35 rover systems, 59 sample records, 437 instruments and payloads, five planetary-data authorities, and 12 source-backed findings without promoting objectives into results.
Expanded the universal graph to 154,864 identities while preserving unmatched landercat objects, traverse geometry, and detailed sample curation as explicit source-backed extensions or evidence holds.
Closed the astronomy boundary across all 280 GCAT astronomy spacecraft, 85 connected missions, 331 instrument and payload records, and 65 curated observatory dispositions.
Published 85 mission science programs and 48 source-backed outcome summaries while preventing objectives, future work, and generic sensor platforms from becoming discoveries or observatories.
Connected six observation archives and three specialist catalog authorities and expanded the universal graph to 155,006 identities without mirroring their changing product, object, or publication rows.
Closed the Earth-from-space boundary across 5,446 weather, imaging, environmental, geodetic, and public reconnaissance spacecraft, 127 connected missions, and 459 instrument or payload records.
Represented 1,168 public reconnaissance identities while explicitly forbidding inference about classified capabilities, targets, collection plans, products, or current operations.
Connected 127 product collections, 60 source-backed outcomes, seven data authorities, and 68 curated hardware dispositions, expanding the universal graph to 155,200 identities.
Closed the science and technology boundary across 4,854 physical objects, 303 mission dossiers, and 1,125 instrument or experiment records.
Published 14 controlled subjects and 716 cited mission-subject relationships without inferring unstated disciplines, capabilities, or successful demonstrations.
Connected 162 source-backed outcome summaries and six specialist archive authorities while keeping objectives, datasets, technical reports, publications, versions, access, and rights in their correct evidence states.
Closed the beyond-flight-crews person spine across 1,558 reviewed no-flight people and 47 separately reviewed contributors, retaining eight explicit source-discovery holds.
Reconciled 107 contributor roles, 110 organization relationships, 85 mission contributions, and all 271 institutional identities without projecting current affiliations backward.
Published temporal, identity, and privacy guardrails and integrated contributor roles plus ORCID, ROR, and Library of Congress identity authorities into the universal graph.
Closed the safety-history census across 874 adverse launch outcomes and 55 source-backed incident records connected to 46 canonical missions.
Separated raw outcome codes, investigated causes, recommendations, implemented changes, and effectiveness claims while promoting only three explicitly documented corrective or operational responses.
Connected five official investigation authorities and expanded the universal graph to 155,500 identities with zero duplicate canonical IDs, type/slug collisions, or schema failures.
Closed the frozen orbital-environment census across 28,686 debris-class identities, 979 parent-linked fragment families, and 16,823 recorded reentries or decays.
Published nine reviewed collision, fragmentation, mitigation, sustainability, traffic-management, and space-weather milestones plus seven responsible live-authority connectors.
Kept historical orbit elements separate from operational tracking and expanded the universal graph to 185,177 identities without duplicating four already canonical debris-class hardware records.
Closed the reviewed law and policy foundation across 21 core instruments, all 24 program decision graphs, 65 related decision events, and ten responsible legal, regulatory, spending, budget, and economic authorities.
Represented every program budget as an explicit evidence hold rather than publishing an amount without currency, price basis, period, scope, financial state, and source.
Separated treaty lifecycle, national implementation, authorization, appropriation, procurement, obligation, expenditure, and final-cost states while expanding the universal graph to 185,257 identities.
Closed the reviewed space-culture core across 39 institutional records spanning all eleven named museum, memorial, stamp, art, literature, screen-media, game, journalism, education, outreach, and public-interpretation classes.
Kept historical evidence, commemoration, interpretation, fiction, dramatization, journalism, education, and misinformation response distinct while forbidding fictional identities from entering historical ledgers.
Connected eight responsible collection authorities and expanded the universal graph to 185,304 identities while preserving rights and local-binary-acquisition holds on every remote catalog record.
Dispositioned all 9,540 current source and media library records: 6,058 reviewed source-metadata rows and 3,482 checksum-bearing media rows.
Connected 5,558 sources to media while retaining 500 remote-metadata or acquisition holds and six requested resource-class discovery holds instead of inventing preserved files.
Added eleven discovery and preservation authorities and expanded the universal graph to 185,315 identities without treating remote cataloging as local custody.
Audited all 2,351 published people, 1,306 missions, and 6,058 source rows for country, region, script, language, translation, and authority coverage.
Preserved 63 country or historical-state labels, connected 30 national and international authorities, and retained 41 national-authority discovery holds without projecting current borders backward.
Exposed the 3,964-row US source concentration and expanded the universal graph to 185,408 identities while keeping every unsupported original-language name or title as an explicit hold.
Classified all 1,306 canonical missions into current, future, or frozen historical lifecycle registers while preserving every original source-backed status.
Separated target dates, assignments, launches, active operations, outcomes, and cancellations; connected 14 monitoring authorities without treating their changing pages as live truth.
Closed the eighteenth Total Space Archive program across 185,422 identities and 380,582 typed canonical relationships, preserving 12,734 unresolved targets as explicit graph holds.
Published checksum-bound compressed identity and relationship exports, per-type completeness measures, scope exclusions, terminal connectivity dispositions, and visible formal correction history.
Clarified that the 185,422-identity census is the canonical machine-readable foundation, not a claim that every identity already has a finished reader-facing card.
Added the archive presentation rollout to the formal backlog, with cards as the default for reader-meaningful identities and explicit parent, collection, or defer dispositions for highly granular records.
Kept no-image records eligible for cards so unresolved photography and rights evidence cannot silently suppress otherwise useful archive subjects.
Classified all 185,422 canonical identities into deterministic reader-facing presentation dispositions, with zero unclassified records and explicit holds or parent-linked rows where standalone pages are not yet appropriate.
Introduced shared accessible card, detail-header, relationship, and source patterns; all 47 Spaceflight Figure profiles and all 1,306 mission-directory records now satisfy the enforceable presentation contract.
Opened the 27,155-record launch archive through an 81-year bounded index, filterable annual card directories, and stable on-demand detail routes without producing tens of thousands of build outputs.
Repaired 444 structured payload facts that the launch-extension builder had serialized as object placeholders and added a fail-closed integrity check preventing those labels from returning.
Connected all 1,158 source-backed physical mission dispositions to their exact launch cards with validated return navigation, while preserving 148 non-launch missions without fabricated launch identities.
Added 738 conservative source-backed launch links across 63 reviewed vehicle routes and rejected 306 deceptive spacecraft, payload, observatory, or mission name collisions rather than linking the wrong hardware.
Published all 312 canonical launch sites with bounded year histories spanning 27,360 exactly reconciled primary or ascent-site relationships across every GCAT launch; 160 archive extensions without site evidence remain held.
Published shared-contract detail pages for all 31,986 canonical global space objects, with 31,329 exact launch-to-object links and 31,960 object-to-launch links; conflicting or identifier-less manifest rows remain explicit holds.
Connected 3,624 of 4,072 archive-native payload and instrument references to an exact mission launch and added 585 unambiguous manifest return links; 448 non-launch references remain held.
Published stable shared-contract detail routes for all 271 organizations and connected 80 organizations to 493 launches through 791 exact mission-derived relationships; 27 institutional evidence holds remain explicit.
Opened all 31,986 frozen space-object identities through one checksum-bound, paginated collection directory with exact catalog search and reviewed category, decade, lifecycle, state, and CubeSat filters; universal search reuses the same compact artifact for complete object coverage.
Upgraded all 4,072 archive-native payload and experiment detail pages to the shared canonical-identity, key-fact, relationship, source, launch-disposition, and explicit no-reviewed-image contracts.
Added a lossless roster boundary so future NAS exports can reproduce the accepted astronaut directory without approximating display fields.
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Importer v6 preserves all 2,362 source roster rows, including field presence, sentinel values, list order, and intentional duplicate identities, while normalized tables continue to own search and relationships.
Added the lossless table to deterministic snapshots, semantic comparisons, guarded round trips, and strict compatibility generation; normalized-only snapshots now fail closed.
Registered nine omitted Spaceflight Figure research tables and promoted Spaceflight Figures to a supported media entity, reducing the media importer from 47 errors to zero.
All 90 API tests, a 148,204-record disposable round trip, the exact accepted v2 checksum, a 242-page static build, and 12 route smokes pass under Node 24. No NAS, live database, Vercel runtime, Function, or image-optimizer work occurred; the reviewed live rerun remains a separate operator gate.
Audited the delivery surface and documented the remaining cold-request ISR paths separately from fully prebuilt pages, together with a future CDN-only migration plan. This audit did not run a Vercel build or deployment.
Created a source-reviewed mission-insignia intake inventory covering 533 candidate missions. The committed baseline has 28 approved patches and 505 records still requiring an exact patch or a documented no-insignia decision; generated artwork is excluded.
Expanded interface safeguards for responsive branding, complete Spaceflight Figure profiles, quiet review notes, text-based external-link labels, exact mission insignia, compact whole-card Read Next capture, and the restored Back to top control.
Launch-photo backlog reconciled without substitutes
Closed the launch-photo queue with 262 exact images, 373 evidence holds, and no active research items.
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Added NASA's exact January 11, 2026 Pandora powered-ascent photograph, five responsive derivatives, and a manifest; all seven NAS objects passed an idempotent checksum verification.
Mapped seven already approved, checksum-bound VSS Unity and Galactic in-flight photographs after visual review, with zero downloads and zero NAS reads or writes.
Completed zero-error NASA Images and official-source-page sweeps, reviewed 233 same-mission approved assets, and preserved 373 precise terminal holds instead of using generated, generic, wrong-phase, undersized, or rights-unclear substitutes.
Added a release-blocking audit requiring six checksum-distinct, planet-specific Voyager encounter photographs after confirming Production still serves an older shared-image dataset.
Verified the current importer-v2 dry run at 4,906 documents across 23 kinds and 27 exact topic buckets, recording the 827-document delta from the last observed live NAS state without changing the NAS or database.
Activated the verified NAS authority package with a complete rollback copy, restored HTTP 200 content API reads, and checksum-verified six distinct Voyager encounter images through the public media edge without using Vercel.
Copied and restored the newest PostgreSQL dump plus the complete 19,459-file image tree off the NAS, then proved 7,548 registered media checksums with zero failures.
Preserved and optimized 28 oversized event-photo masters, regenerated 140 derivatives, and completed a 159,821-record disposable reconciliation with two byte-identical exports.
Completed all 47 Spaceflight Figure portraits with identity- and provenance-reviewed real photographs from official, institutional, archival, or explicitly licensed sources; every master and responsive derivative is checksum-verified on the NAS, with no generated substitutes.
Rebuilt the Spaceflight Figures directory with complete bordered profile cards, roomier columns, and fully wrapped category and role text instead of clipped labels.
Introduced the new orbital AstronautAtlas identity across the header, favicon, social preview, browser theme, and interface palette with deep green, solar yellow, cream, blue, and rust brand colors.
Added cache-busted SVG, multi-size ICO, PNG, Apple touch, and installable-app variants of the A badge so browser tabs no longer depend on SVG-only favicon support.
Content and media work used no Vercel runtime, Functions, or image optimizer; approved production releases remained static-build only.
Event collections and major mission galleries receive exact photographs
Completed exact event imagery and all 27 planned major-mission galleries while keeping unsafe slots as evidence holds.
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Finished the milestone-photo backlog. Four exact, visually reviewed public-domain NASA photographs now cover Mariner 6, Jason-1, AMPTE UKS, and the Swift Boost launch campaign; four masters, 20 responsive derivatives, and the cohort manifest passed a 25-object zero-rewrite mounted-NAS checksum verification. Milestone coverage reaches 445 of 519. A zero-error NASA catalog sweep of all 78 prior targets and a zero-error review of 62 cited official pages formally disposition the other 74 records as terminal evidence holds with exact reopening requirements, leaving zero active milestone-photo research subjects and 732 exact event heroes without generated imagery, Vercel runtime, or Vercel build CPU.
Verified that the approved Shenzhou 12 mission photograph already supplies its exact launch mapping, source checksum, and derivatives, preventing a duplicate NAS asset. Launch acquisition cohort 040 adds ForrestXYC's exact Shenzhou 13 powered-ascent photograph under CC BY-SA 4.0 while retaining Ib's disclosed post-processing credit. Its 3072-by-4608 master, five derivatives, and manifest passed a seven-object zero-rewrite NAS verification. Launch coverage reaches 254 of 635, the queue falls to 381, and the event program reaches 728 exact heroes without generated imagery, Vercel runtime, or Vercel build CPU.
Completed launch reuse cohort 011 and acquisition cohort 039 for Soyuz MS-24 and Soyuz MS-25. MS-24 reuses the checksum-bound approved Expedition 70 NASA launch photograph with zero NAS access. MS-25 adds NASA/Bill Ingalls photograph NHQ202403230058, whose official caption identifies the crew, March 23, 2024 date, and powered ascent. Its 8154-by-5131 master, five derivatives, and manifest passed a seven-object zero-rewrite NAS verification. Launch coverage reaches 253 of 635, the queue falls to 382, and the event program reaches 727 exact heroes without generated imagery, Vercel runtime, or Vercel build CPU.
Completed launch acquisition cohort 038 with exact TEMPO and ESCAPADE liftoff photographs from Official SpaceX Photos and Blue Origin. The 3000-by-2000 Intelsat 40e/TEMPO frame retains CC BY-NC 2.0 attribution terms, while the 1300-by-867 NG-2 frame comes from Blue Origin's downloadable press gallery. Two masters, ten derivatives, and the manifest passed a 13-object zero-rewrite NAS verification. Launch coverage reaches 251 of 635, the queue falls to 384, and the event program reaches 725 exact heroes without generated imagery, Vercel runtime, or Vercel build CPU.
Completed launch acquisition cohort 037 with DVIDS Photo ID 9103516, an exact public-domain U.S. Space Force photograph of Fram2 lifting off from Launch Complex 39A on March 31, 2025. The reviewed conventional frame excludes the same gallery's long-exposure photo illustrations. Its 2000-by-2996 master, five derivatives, and manifest passed a seven-object zero-rewrite NAS verification. Launch coverage reaches 249 of 635, the queue falls to 386, and the event program reaches 723 exact heroes without generated imagery, Vercel runtime, or Vercel build CPU.
Completed launch acquisition cohort 036 with Virgin Galactic's exact 3840-by-2160 Galactic 07 powered-boost TIFF. A lossless TIFF-to-PNG archival normalization preserves every source pixel and binds both original and normalized checksums. The normalized master, five derivatives, and provenance-rich manifest passed a seven-object zero-rewrite NAS verification. Galactic 03 remains held below the image-size floor. Launch coverage reaches 248 of 635, the queue falls to 387, and the event program reaches 722 exact heroes without generated imagery, Vercel runtime, or Vercel build CPU.
Completed launch acquisition cohort 035 with exact official Virgin Galactic powered-boost and carrier-release photographs for Galactic 01 and Galactic 02. Two masters, ten derivatives, and the manifest passed a 13-object zero-rewrite NAS verification. Takeoff, cabin, generic in-space, and neighboring-mission alternatives remain excluded. Launch coverage reaches 247 of 635, the queue falls to 388, and the event program reaches 721 exact heroes without generated imagery, Vercel runtime, or Vercel build CPU.
Completed launch acquisition cohort 034 with Blue Origin's exact June 29, 2025 NS-33 liftoff photograph. Its 3000-by-2306 master, five derivatives, and manifest passed a seven-object zero-rewrite NAS verification. The operator-gallery review rejected an exact NS-34 file below the 800-pixel height floor and held NS-32 rather than guessing its hidden original URL. Launch coverage reaches 245 of 635, the queue falls to 390, and the event program reaches 719 exact heroes without generated imagery, Vercel runtime, or Vercel build CPU.
Completed a 52-record Commons/DVIDS-indexed follow-on across every unresolved Vostok, Voskhod, Luna, Venera, Chang'e, Transit, Echo, TIROS, and X-15 launch record. All transient requests were retried to terminal results, with no unsafe candidate promoted. The retry command now inherits each source report's historical date window, preventing old failed records from being silently skipped. The research used no NAS writes, generated imagery, Vercel runtime, or Vercel build CPU.
Completed launch acquisition cohort 033 with the exact China News Service powered-ascent frame for Shenzhou 19, retained with its visible source watermark under CC BY 4.0. One master, five derivatives, and the manifest passed a seven-object zero-rewrite NAS verification. A Shenzhou 22 watermark-removed derivative and non-launch commercial-spaceflight results were explicitly rejected. Launch coverage reaches 244 of 635, the queue falls to 391, and the event program reaches 718 exact heroes without generated imagery, Vercel runtime, or Vercel build CPU.
Completed launch reuse cohort 010 by mapping the already approved Expedition 19 and Expedition 65 NASA launch photographs to the exact Soyuz TMA-14 and Soyuz MS-18 events. Soyuz MS-18's inferred October 5, 2017 date is corrected to the checksum-bound NASA catalog caption's April 9, 2021 date in the owning ISS generator and all four derived records. Launch coverage reaches 243 of 635, the queue falls to 392, and the event program reaches 717 exact heroes with zero downloads, NAS reads or writes, generated imagery, Vercel runtime, or Vercel build CPU.
Completed launch acquisition cohort 032 with full-resolution U.S. Space Force public-domain photographs for Axiom Mission 4, SpaceX CRS-33, Cygnus NG-23, and SpaceX CRS-34. Four masters, 20 derivatives, and the manifest passed a 25-object zero-rewrite NAS verification. Zero-error NASA catalog passes across the remaining Axiom, SpaceX CRS, Cygnus NG, and HTV records remain preserved beside their Commons/DVIDS provenance. Launch coverage reaches 241 of 635, the queue falls to 394, and the event program reaches 715 exact heroes without generated imagery, Vercel runtime, or Vercel build CPU.
Completed launch acquisition cohort 031 with exact public-domain NASA photographs for Pioneer 4, Cygnus Orb-3, Cygnus OA-4, and Cygnus OA-7. The Orb-3 frame records its immediate catastrophic launch failure rather than substituting a nominal Antares flight. Four masters, 20 derivatives, and the manifest passed a 25-object zero-rewrite NAS verification. A zero-error NASA catalog pass found no additional exact Cygnus results, and undersized or prelaunch early-Pioneer files remain held. Launch coverage reaches 237 of 635, the queue falls to 398, and the event program reaches 711 exact heroes without generated imagery, Vercel runtime, or Vercel build CPU.
Completed launch acquisition cohort 030 with NASA Johnson photograph S62-05531, an exact May 24, 1962 Mercury-Atlas 7 ignition view with Scott Carpenter aboard Aurora 7. One master, five derivatives, and the manifest passed a seven-object zero-rewrite NAS verification. Preparation-only Little Joe imagery remains held rather than being presented as an exact launch. Launch coverage reaches 233 of 635, the queue falls to 402, and the event program reaches 707 exact heroes without generated imagery, Vercel runtime, or Vercel build CPU.
Completed launch acquisition cohort 029 with public-domain NASA Saturn I liftoff photographs for AS-101 and AS-103. AS-101 remains at its native 800-pixel width and receives only four supported derivative sizes; no image is enlarged. Two masters, nine derivatives, and the manifest passed a 12-object zero-rewrite NAS verification. All seven unresolved Apollo development flights received zero-error NASA catalog and Commons review; five abort-test records remain held below the archive quality floor. Launch coverage reaches 232 of 635, the queue falls to 403, and the event program reaches 706 exact heroes without generated imagery, Vercel runtime, or Vercel build CPU.
Completed launch acquisition cohort 028 with full-resolution public-domain NASA flight photographs for Little Joe 1B, Beach Abort, Mercury-Redstone 1, and Little Joe 5A. Four masters, 20 derivatives, and the manifest passed a 25-object zero-rewrite NAS verification. Mercury-Redstone 1 uses the exact engine-firing frame from its four-inch flight rather than a neighboring launch. Zero-error NASA catalog passes reviewed all six family records; Little Joe 1 and Little Joe 5 remain held because surviving files show assembly or prelaunch preparation. Launch coverage reaches 230 of 635, the queue falls to 405, and the event program reaches 704 exact heroes without generated imagery, Vercel runtime, or Vercel build CPU.
Completed launch acquisition cohort 027 with full-resolution public-domain NOAA liftoff photographs for TIROS-1 and TIROS-2. Two masters, ten derivatives, and the manifest passed a 13-object zero-rewrite NAS verification. Zero-error NASA catalog passes reviewed all 18 unresolved TIROS, Transit, and Echo records; exact Transit images remain held below the quality floor and Echo prelaunch hardware remains excluded. Launch coverage reaches 226 of 635, the queue falls to 409, and the event program reaches 700 exact heroes without generated imagery, Vercel runtime, or Vercel build CPU.
Completed launch acquisition cohort 026 with full-resolution public-domain NASA launch photographs for Explorer 6, Pioneer 10, and Pioneer 11. Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 now preserve their documented March 2, 1972 and April 5, 1973 dates in the owning robotic catalog and all derived records instead of year-only January 1 placeholders. Three masters, 15 derivatives, and the manifest passed a 19-object zero-rewrite NAS verification. Separate zero-error NASA catalog passes reviewed seven unresolved Explorer and ten Pioneer records; undersized or non-exact surviving photographs remain held. Launch coverage reaches 224 of 635, the queue falls to 411, and the event program reaches 698 exact heroes without generated imagery, Vercel runtime, or Vercel build CPU.
Completed launch acquisition cohort 025 with a full-resolution U.S. Navy public-domain photograph of the December 6, 1957 Vanguard TV-3 first-stage failure beside its launch stand. One master, five derivatives, and the manifest passed a seven-object zero-rewrite NAS verification. A zero-error NASA catalog pass across all 12 remaining Vanguard records found no strict exact-identity result; other reviewed Commons launch photographs were undersized, depicted neighboring flights, or lacked individual-flight evidence and remain held. Launch coverage reaches 221 of 635, the queue falls to 414, and the event program reaches 695 exact heroes without generated imagery, Vercel runtime, or Vercel build CPU.
Completed launch acquisition cohort 024 with NASA catalog photograph S77-28542 for Enterprise ALT-14. The source caption names the September 23, 1977 third Approach and Landing Test free flight and the photograph shows Enterprise beginning its airborne release. One master, five derivatives, and the manifest passed a seven-object zero-rewrite NAS verification. A zero-error NASA pass across the 12 remaining Enterprise ALT records and a Commons category review found no individually identified reusable photographs for the taxi and captive flights, which remain open rather than receiving generic imagery. Launch coverage reaches 220 of 635, the queue falls to 415, and the event program reaches 694 exact heroes without generated imagery, Vercel runtime, or Vercel build CPU.
Completed launch acquisition cohort 023 with exact ATV-2 and ATV-4 launch photographs. The orbital ATV-2 view retains its public-domain NASA and Paolo Nespoli credit; the ATV-4 liftoff retains DLR/Thilo Kranz attribution under CC BY 2.0. Two masters, ten responsive derivatives, and the manifest passed a 13-object zero-rewrite NAS verification. ATV-1, ATV-3, and ATV-5 remain held because the exact ESA launch imagery reviewed so far carries the ESA Standard Licence rather than established reusable permission. Launch coverage reaches 219 of 635, the queue falls to 416, and the event program reaches 693 exact heroes without generated imagery, Vercel runtime, or Vercel build CPU.
Completed launch acquisition cohort 022 with six exact HTV-1 through HTV-6 launch images from rights-reviewed Commons records. Five photographer images retain their CC BY-SA/GFDL or CC BY-SA 4.0 terms; HTV-6 retains its public-domain NASA TV credit and visible broadcast marks. Six masters, 30 derivatives, and the manifest passed a 37-object zero-rewrite NAS verification. Separate zero-error NASA catalog passes across 90 ISS Progress, 13 X-15, ten HTV, and five ATV records found no other exact launch stills, while the scrubbed-attempt-dated HTV-8 file remains held. Launch coverage reaches 217 of 635, the queue falls to 418, and the event program reaches 691 exact heroes without generated imagery, Vercel runtime, or Vercel build CPU.
Completed a zero-error NASA catalog pass across all 120 remaining Soyuz launch records, then resolved six exact events. Reuse cohort 009 maps two checksum-identical Expedition 25 and 28 assets to Soyuz TMA-01M and TMA-02M with explicit cross-entity authorization and zero NAS access. Acquisition cohort 021 adds four visually reviewed NASA photographs for TMA-3, TMA-17, TMA-15M, and TMA-20M; four masters, 20 derivatives, and the manifest passed a 25-object zero-rewrite NAS verification. The USSR Academy-credited Soyuz 19 catalog copy remains excluded for insufficient reusable-rights evidence. Launch coverage reaches 211 of 635, the queue falls to 424, and the event program reaches 685 exact heroes without generated imagery, Vercel runtime, or Vercel build CPU.
Completed launch acquisition cohort 020 with four exact, visually reviewed public-domain NASA photographs for Soyuz MS-26, MS-27, MS-28, and MS-29. Four masters, 20 responsive derivatives, and the manifest passed a 25-object zero-rewrite mounted-NAS checksum verification. NASA's Expedition 72 through 75 records bind every frame by launch date, crew, destination, and visible powered ascent. Launch coverage reaches 205 of 635, the queue falls to 430, and the event program reaches 679 exact heroes without generated imagery, Vercel runtime, or Vercel build CPU.
Completed launch reuse cohort 008 and acquisition cohort 019. Five checksum-bound existing photographs now map to the exact Little Joe 2, Enterprise ALT-13, ALT-15, ALT-16, and Unity 22 powered-flight records with ten misleading candidates explicitly rejected and zero NAS access. Three newly acquired, visually reviewed NASA-origin photographs cover SA-2, AS-203, and Apollo 15; three masters, 14 responsive derivatives, and the manifest passed an 18-object zero-rewrite mounted-NAS checksum verification. Launch coverage reaches 201 of 635, the queue falls to 434, and the event program reaches 675 exact heroes without generated imagery, Vercel runtime, or Vercel build CPU.
Completed launch acquisition cohort 018 with four exact, visually reviewed public-domain NASA photographs for Axiom Mission 2 and SpaceX Crew-10, Crew-11, and Crew-12. Four masters, 20 responsive derivatives, and the manifest passed a 25-object zero-rewrite mounted-NAS checksum verification. Crew-10's stale March 14, 2024 archive date is corrected to NASA's documented March 14, 2025 launch in the four derived records and owning ISS generator. Together with reuse cohort 007's five exact mappings from already approved assets, launch coverage reaches 193 of 635, the queue falls to 442, and the event program reaches 667 exact heroes without generated imagery, Vercel runtime, or Vercel build CPU.
Completed launch acquisition cohort 017 with eight exact, visually reviewed public-domain NASA or Commons-verified CC0 SpaceX cargo-launch photographs covering CRS-2, CRS-3, CRS-5, CRS-6, CRS-9, CRS-11, CRS-13, and CRS-16. Eight masters, 40 responsive derivatives, and the manifest passed a 49-object zero-rewrite mounted-NAS checksum verification. Launch coverage reaches 184 of 635, the queue falls to 451, and the event program reaches 658 exact heroes without generated imagery, Vercel runtime, or Vercel build CPU.
Corrected Cygnus NG-10 through NG-17 launch dates in the owning NASA chronology resolver and across mission, directory, vehicle, and event records, with NG-18 independently confirmed. Reuse cohort 006 then promoted five existing exact NG-10, NG-11, NG-12, NG-13, and NG-17 launch photographs with zero downloads or NAS access. Acquisition cohort 016 added four visually reviewed NASA launch photographs for NG-14, NG-15, NG-16, and NG-18; four masters, 20 responsive derivatives, and the manifest passed a 25-object zero-rewrite mounted-NAS checksum verification. Launch coverage reaches 176 of 635, the queue falls to 459, and the event program reaches 650 exact heroes without generated imagery, Vercel runtime, or Vercel build CPU.
Completed launch acquisition cohort 015 with seven exact, visually reviewed public-domain NASA launch photographs covering Mars Pathfinder, Spirit, Opportunity, SpaceX CRS-20, SpaceX CRS-28, Soyuz MS-22, and TRACERS. Seven masters, 35 responsive derivatives, and the manifest passed a 43-object zero-rewrite mounted-NAS checksum verification. Launch coverage reaches 167 of 635, the queue falls to 468, and the event program reaches 641 exact heroes without generated imagery, Vercel runtime, or Vercel build CPU.
Completed launch acquisition cohort 014 with ten exact, visually reviewed public-domain NASA SpaceX cargo-launch photographs covering CRS-1, CRS-17, CRS-21 through CRS-27, and CRS-29. Ten masters, 50 responsive derivatives, and the manifest passed a 61-object zero-rewrite mounted-NAS checksum verification. Launch coverage reaches 160 of 635, the queue falls to 475, and the event program reaches 634 exact heroes without generated imagery, Vercel runtime, or Vercel build CPU.
Completed launch acquisition cohort 013 with ten exact, visually reviewed public-domain NASA Commercial Crew launch photographs covering SpaceX Demo-2, Crew-3, Crew-4, Crew-5, Crew-7, Crew-8, Crew-9, Boeing OFT, OFT-2, and Crew Flight Test. Ten masters, 50 responsive derivatives, and the manifest passed a 61-object zero-rewrite mounted-NAS checksum verification. Launch coverage reaches 150 of 635, the queue falls to 485, and the event program reaches 624 exact heroes without generated imagery, Vercel runtime, or Vercel build CPU.
Completed launch acquisition cohort 012 with seven exact, visually reviewed public-domain NASA Soyuz liftoff photographs spanning MS-07 through MS-17. Seven masters, 35 responsive derivatives, and the manifest passed a 43-object zero-rewrite mounted-NAS checksum verification. Launch coverage reaches 140 of 635, the queue falls to 495, and the event program reaches 614 exact heroes without generated imagery, Vercel runtime, or Vercel build CPU.
Completed launch acquisition cohort 011 with ten exact, visually reviewed public-domain NASA Soyuz launch photographs spanning TMA-08M through MS-12. Ten masters, 50 responsive derivatives, and the manifest passed a 61-object zero-rewrite mounted-NAS checksum verification. Launch coverage reaches 133 of 635, the queue falls to 502, and the event program reaches 607 exact heroes without generated imagery, Vercel runtime, or Vercel build CPU.
Completed launch acquisition cohort 010 with ten exact, visually reviewed public-domain NASA Soyuz launch photographs spanning TMA-9 through TMA-07M. Ten masters, 50 responsive derivatives, and the manifest passed a 61-object zero-rewrite mounted-NAS checksum verification. Launch coverage reaches 123 of 635, the queue falls to 512, and the event program reaches 597 exact heroes without generated imagery, Vercel runtime, or Vercel build CPU.
Completed launch acquisition cohort 009 with twelve exact, visually reviewed public-domain NASA launch photographs for Apollo 7, Apollo 9, Apollo 10, Apollo 12, Apollo 13, Apollo 14, Apollo 16, the U.S. Apollo-Soyuz vehicle, and Skylab 1 through Skylab 4. Twelve masters, 59 responsive derivatives, and the manifest passed a 72-object zero-rewrite mounted-NAS checksum verification. Launch coverage reaches 113 of 635, the queue falls to 522, and the event program reaches 587 exact heroes without generated imagery, Vercel runtime, or Vercel build CPU.
Completed launch acquisition cohort 008 with nine exact, visually reviewed public-domain NASA launch photographs for Mercury-Redstone 2, Mercury-Atlas 2, Mercury-Redstone 3, Mercury-Redstone 4, Mercury-Atlas 4, Little Joe 5B, Mercury-Atlas 6, Mercury-Atlas 8, and Mercury-Atlas 9. Nine masters, 45 responsive derivatives, and the manifest passed a 55-object zero-rewrite mounted-NAS checksum verification. Launch coverage reaches 101 of 635, the queue falls to 534, and the event program reaches 575 exact heroes without generated imagery, Vercel runtime, or Vercel build CPU.
Completed launch acquisition cohort 007 with nine exact, visually reviewed public-domain NASA liftoff photographs for Gemini 1, Gemini 2, Gemini 3, Gemini 6A, Gemini 7, Gemini 9A, Gemini 10, Gemini 11, and Gemini 12. Nine masters, 45 responsive derivatives, and the manifest passed a 55-object zero-rewrite mounted-NAS checksum verification. Launch coverage reaches 92 of 635, the queue falls to 543, and the event program reaches 566 exact heroes without generated imagery, Vercel runtime, or Vercel build CPU.
Completed launch acquisition cohort 006 with six exact, visually reviewed public-domain NASA photographs for Apollo 4, Apollo 5, Apollo 6, AS-201, AS-202, and Ares I-X. Six masters, 29 responsive derivatives, and the manifest passed a 36-object zero-rewrite mounted-NAS checksum verification. Launch coverage reaches 83 of 635, the queue falls to 552, and the event program reaches 557 exact heroes without generated imagery, Vercel runtime, or Vercel build CPU.
Expanded the launch-photo program through reuse cohort 005. Seventy-four approved, derivative-backed real photographs now map to exact launch or powered-flight events after mission, date, source-caption, rights, checksum, storage, and derivative review. Eleven recovery, scrubbed-attempt, first-stage-return, rollout, and wrong-date candidates are explicitly rejected. TRMM and Kaguya now preserve their documented November 27, 1997 and September 14, 2007 launch dates in canonical records and the owning generator. Launch coverage reaches 77 of 635, the queue falls to 558, and the event program reaches 551 exact heroes with no download, NAS access, generated imagery, Vercel runtime, or Vercel build CPU.
Resolved Viking 2's final gallery hold by reusing its approved, checksum-bound PIA00396 first-surface photograph as the third gallery slot. The gallery program now publishes 75 of 81 planned photographs across 25 complete three-photo galleries; only three Soyuz 1 and three Shenzhou 5 rights-evidence holds remain. The reuse required no new asset, NAS access, generated imagery, Vercel runtime, or Vercel build CPU.
Started the 635-record exact launch-photo queue with two conservative reuse cohorts. Forty approved, derivative-backed photographs already in the static registry now map to their exact launch events after mission, date, source-caption, checksum, storage, and derivative review. Six recovery, scrubbed-attempt, first-stage-return, and rollout scenes were explicitly rejected. Launch coverage reaches 43 of 635, the remaining queue falls to 592, and the event program reaches 517 exact heroes with zero new downloads, NAS access, generated imagery, Vercel runtime, or Vercel build CPU.
Completed milestone acquisition cohort 009 with exact, visually reviewed public-domain NASA photographs for Gemini 5 recovery and the ICESat, Dawn, and Jason-2 launches. Four masters, 19 responsive derivatives, and the manifest passed a 24-object zero-rewrite mounted-NAS checksum verification. Milestone coverage reaches 441 of 519, the research queue falls to 78, and the event program reaches 477 exact heroes without generated imagery, Vercel runtime, or Vercel build CPU.
Completed milestone acquisition cohort 008 with ten exact, visually reviewed NASA photographs covering Gemini 5 launch, the Gemini 9A and Gemini 12 EVAs, Deep Space 1, Aqua, GRACE Follow-On, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, GRAIL, TDRS-10, and SWOT. Ten masters, 50 responsive derivatives, and the manifest passed a 61-object zero-rewrite mounted-NAS checksum verification. Milestone coverage reaches 437 of 519, the research queue falls to 82, and the event program reaches 473 exact heroes without generated imagery, Vercel runtime, or Vercel build CPU.
Completed milestone acquisition cohort 007 with ten exact, visually reviewed NASA photographs covering the Mariner 2 Venus flyby data record, Gemini 3 Mission Control, TDRS-3 deployment, and Expeditions 6, 16, 37, 51, 57, 73, and 74. Ten masters, 49 responsive derivatives, and the manifest passed a 60-object zero-rewrite mounted-NAS checksum verification. Mariner 2 now uses the documented December 14, 1962 Venus-flyby date rather than its August launch date. Milestone coverage reaches 428 of 519, the research queue falls to 91, and the event program reaches 463 exact heroes without generated imagery, Vercel runtime, or Vercel build CPU.
Completed milestone acquisition cohort 006 with twenty-seven exact, visually reviewed NASA Shuttle photographs spanning STS-4 through STS-133. Twenty-seven masters, 135 responsive derivatives, and the manifest passed a 163-object zero-rewrite mounted-NAS checksum verification. Twenty-six launch-day placeholders now use documented crew-transfer, servicing, truss or module installation, array deployment, experiment, docking, mission-completion, or final-landing dates. Milestone coverage reaches 418 of 519, the research queue falls to 101, and the event program reaches 453 exact heroes without generated imagery, Vercel runtime, or Vercel build CPU.
Completed milestone acquisition cohort 005 with twenty exact, visually reviewed NASA-origin Shuttle photographs spanning STS-3 through STS-106. Twenty masters, 99 responsive derivatives, and the manifest passed a 120-object zero-rewrite mounted-NAS checksum verification. Eleven launch-day placeholders now use documented deployment, landing, retrieval, servicing-completion, Mir crew-exchange, or ISS assembly and outfitting dates. Milestone coverage reaches 391 of 519, the research queue falls to 128, and the event program reaches 426 exact heroes without generated imagery, Vercel runtime, or Vercel build CPU.
Completed milestone acquisition cohort 004 with sixteen new exact, visually reviewed NASA-origin Shuttle photographs and one checksum-identical reuse of the existing approved SPACEHAB-1 image. Sixteen masters, 80 responsive derivatives, and the manifest passed a 97-object zero-rewrite mounted-NAS checksum verification. Five launch-day placeholders were corrected to the documented construction-EVA, landing, mission-completion, crew-return, or Dextre-assembly dates. Milestone coverage reaches 371 of 519, the research queue falls to 148, and the event program reaches 406 exact heroes without generated imagery, Vercel runtime, or Vercel build CPU.
Completed milestone acquisition cohort 003 with fifteen exact, visually reviewed NASA-origin photographs covering STS-41-G, STS-51-D, STS-51-B, STS-32, STS-37, STS-46, STS-54, STS-64, STS-63, STS-69, STS-87, STS-93, STS-97, STS-100, and STS-104. Fifteen masters, 74 responsive derivatives, and the manifest passed a zero-rewrite 90-object mounted-NAS checksum verification. Twelve launch-date placeholders were corrected to the documented achievement dates, including the November 24 SPARTAN recovery and September 14 completion of STS-69's dual deploy-and-retrieve milestone. Milestone coverage reaches 354 of 519, the research queue falls to 165, and the event program reaches 389 exact heroes without generated imagery, Vercel runtime, or Vercel build CPU.
Completed milestone acquisition cohort 002 with eleven exact, real, public-domain NASA-origin photographs covering Gemini 6A/7 rendezvous, Gemini 10 docking, Gemini 11 tether operations, Surveyor 3, TDRS-1, STS-6, STS-7, STS-8, STS-41-B, STS-41-D, and STS-51-C. Eleven masters, 55 responsive derivatives, and the manifest passed one 67-object idempotent mounted-NAS checksum audit. STS-41-B now uses the February 7 untethered-EVA date rather than its launch date. Milestone coverage reaches 339 of 519 and the new-source queue falls to 180 with no generated imagery, Vercel runtime, or Vercel build CPU.
Completed milestone reuse cohorts 010 through 017 with 240 checksum-bound real NASA or rights-reviewed mission photographs already present in the static media registry. A source audit corrected a mislabeled Mariner 7 launch that had been assigned to Mariner 6. The final 79-candidate existing-media review promoted 63 records and explicitly rejected 16 patches, illustrations, diagrams, wrong-mission catalog records, and unrelated mission products. Milestone coverage now stands at 328 of 519, the genuine new-source research queue falls from 431 to 191, and the event program rises from 123 to 363 exact heroes with zero NAS writes, generated imagery, Vercel runtime, or Vercel build CPU.
Completed the four-record landing-photo queue with two new rights-reviewed real photographs and two checksum-bound exact reuses. Ten responsive derivatives and the cohort manifest passed one mounted-NAS boundary and an idempotent 13-object verification pass; no generated imagery or Vercel compute was used.
Completed milestone reuse cohorts 002 through 009 with sixty-eight exact mappings and zero NAS writes, then promoted eight distinct NASA mission-produced milestone photographs with 35 responsive derivatives in one checksum-verified 44-object NAS boundary. Fourteen milestone dates now reflect documented achievements rather than launch placeholders, reducing the milestone research queue to 431 records and raising the event program to 123 exact heroes. The promoted photographs cover Voyager 1 at Saturn; Voyager 2 at Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus; Lunar Orbiter 2 at Copernicus; Mariner 10 at Mercury; Viking 2 at Utopia Planitia; and the DART impact aftermath, with no generated substitute or Vercel execution.
Started the exact incident-photography backlog with five visually reviewed NASA photographs covering six new event mappings plus one exact Challenger reuse. Apollo 1 fire damage, TDRS-B wreckage, Columbia Mission Control, Ranger 3 launch, and Mariner 1 launch now have checksum-staged masters and 24 responsive derivatives on the NAS.
Completed a second exact-incident cohort with eight new rights-reviewed real images, one verified Ranger 6 asset reuse, nine exact event mappings, and 30 responsive derivatives. Authentic Mariner 8, GOES-17, GOES-G, Landsat 6, Ranger 5, Mariner 3, Surveyor 2, and ATS-5 media passed original-resolution visual review and mounted-NAS checksum verification, reducing the unmapped incident queue from 19 records to 10 without generated imagery or Vercel compute.
Dispositioned the final ten incident-photo records with three new reviewed NASA photographs, four checksum-bound exact mission-photo reuses, and three explicit evidence holds. The three masters, twelve responsive derivatives, and cohort manifest passed a single mounted-NAS checksum boundary; 24 of 27 incident records now have exact mappings, while Syncom 1, OGO-1, and Surveyor 4 retain precise reopening requirements instead of unsafe substitutes.
Started the post-incident exact-event backlog with deterministic inventories for 519 milestone, four landing, and 635 launch records. Eight previously reviewed NASA gallery photographs now serve eight exact milestone records after checksum, event-identity, date, source-caption, derivative, and registry review, reducing the milestone queue from 515 to 507 without a NAS write, generated imagery, Vercel runtime, or Vercel build CPU.
Added a repository-enforced Vercel build freeze: ordinary backlog pushes now skip dependency installation and the production build. Only an explicitly approved release-marker update can authorize one consolidated Vercel build.
Corrected nine successful IMP/AIMP science milestones that a word-fragment match had mislabeled as incidents, reducing the true incident inventory from 36 records to 27 while retaining AIMP-1 as an actual missed-orbit incident.
Researched the initial 19 incident subjects against NASA's catalog and 50 already-cited official source pages with zero request failures; three catalog false positives remain explicitly rejected and no generated substitute was accepted.
Split event-only delivery records into a fourth static media shard so new incident and program heroes do not inflate astronaut-profile JavaScript. The unchanged 327,000-byte Brotli budget now passes at 326,366 bytes, with no Vercel Function or runtime media path.
Added exact launch, landing, recovery, crew, spacecraft, mission-control, lunar-orbit, and in-flight photographs from fixed NASA catalog records.
Added dedicated mission-page galleries with descriptive alternative text, captions, credit, official NASA source links, and bundled HTTPS fallbacks.
Verified all twenty masters, one hundred derivatives, and the cohort manifest on the mounted NAS in a zero-rewrite idempotence pass.
Registered forty official source records and checksum-locked every master and delivery derivative.
Reduced the major-mission gallery backlog from sixty-one to forty-one reviewed real photographs without generated imagery or Vercel compute.
Completed the remaining acquisition review with thirty-two exact NASA photographs and two rights-reviewed Vostok 1 artifact photographs, adding 170 responsive derivatives and checksum-verifying all 205 new NAS objects in a zero-rewrite pass.
Exposed twenty previously approved mission and event photographs that the first gallery registry omitted, bringing the mission-page registry to 74 distinct photographs and completing 24 three-photo galleries.
Closed all seven unpublished positions with direct evidence and exact reopening requirements: three Soyuz 1 identity/rights holds, three Shenzhou 5 broadcaster-rights holds, and one Viking 2 resolution hold.
Investigated an apparent group of missing NAS derivatives and traced it to a dropped SMB working share rather than lost media. After remounting, a bounded inventory found zero missing or wrong-sized objects, and the exhaustive audit checksum-verified all 2,754 masters and 12,989 derivatives with zero failures and no NAS writes.
Added exact launch, landing, milestone, and incident heroes using Apollo 11 launch and recovery photographs, the Apollo 11 moonwalk, and the Challenger accident record.
Added distinct International Space Station, Space Shuttle, Soyuz, Mir, Explorer, GOES, Discovery, and Voyager program heroes.
Verified all twelve masters, sixty derivatives, and the cohort manifest on the mounted NAS without rewriting an existing file.
Carried reviewed alternative text through event-directory cards and event detail pages, retained HTTPS source fallbacks, and kept related-mission images truthfully labeled.
Reduced the 27-gallery expansion backlog from sixty-eight to sixty-one photographs without generated imagery or Vercel compute.
The remaining-mission photo queue adds three hundred eight exact photographs
Added 332 reviewed mission photographs and closed all 217 unresolved mission records with explicit evidence holds.
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Started the event, collection, and gallery real-image program by replacing the event directory's hard-coded no-image state with approved related-mission photography for 1,970 of 2,797 unique event records. The generated queue separately tracks four exact collection heroes, eight exact program heroes, and 68 additional real photographs for 27 major mission galleries. Card-group representatives avoid duplicate asset IDs when possible, relationship labels do not claim an exact event match, and no generated imagery or Vercel runtime was used.
Completed active source research for the remaining queue. Added NASA Langley's exact Beacon 2 hardware photograph and NOAA's exact Nimbus 7 mission-produced 1979 ozone image; two masters and nine responsive derivatives passed rights, human visual, and mounted-NAS checksum review. The other 23 active records were reconciled as evidence holds with direct leads and exact rejection reasons. The resulting 217-record queue contains zero unresearched provider records and exports every unresolved mission for manual sourcing; no generated imagery or Vercel runtime was used.
Queued the complete remaining photo program as 219 resumable records: 25 active research-and-download records and 194 evidence-hold rechecks. Added exact public-domain photographs for GPS Block I space-chamber testing, the Transit I-B scale-model presentation, and the Pioneer P-3 launch. Three masters and 14 responsive derivatives passed identity, rights, human visual, and mounted-NAS checksum review, reducing the live no-image queue from 222 to 219. No generated imagery or Vercel runtime was used.
Added five exact rights-reviewed museum photographs for the Venera 4 and Venera 7 capsules, Luna 10 and Luna 24 spacecraft, and the Vega 1 / 2 program probe hardware. Five masters and 25 responsive derivatives passed launch identity, reusable-license, human visual, and mounted-NAS checksum review, reducing the live no-image queue from 227 to 222. The active queue now contains 28 research-and-download records and 194 evidence-hold rechecks; no generated imagery or Vercel runtime was used.
Added the exact U.S. Air Force X-20 Dyna-Soar full-scale mock-up photograph and NASA's exact MOL OPS 0855 qualification-launch photograph. Two masters and eight responsive derivatives passed identity, public-domain rights, human visual, and mounted-NAS checksum review, reducing the live no-image queue from 229 to 227. The active queue now contains 33 research-and-download records and 194 evidence-hold rechecks; no generated imagery or Vercel runtime was used.
Reconciled 20 already researched and rejected exact-source records plus the Syncom 1, Syncom 3, SAS-2, SAS-3, and GOES-5 alternate-source cohort into the canonical evidence-hold ledger instead of repeatedly counting them as fresh provider research. Each hold carries an actionable replacement requirement and retained source leads. No approved media, generated imagery, deployment, or Vercel runtime was involved.
Added exact mission-produced GOES-3 and GOES-6 Earth photographs plus exact Tianwen-1 orbiter and Zhurong flight photographs. Four masters and 20 responsive derivatives passed identity, provenance, rights, human visual, and mounted-NAS checksum review, reducing the live no-image queue from 233 to 229; no generated imagery or Vercel runtime was used.
Added ESA's exact launch photograph of Buran 1K1 and a rights-reviewed photograph of the original OK-GLI atmospheric test vehicle. Two masters and 10 responsive derivatives passed identity, provenance, license, human visual, and mounted-NAS checksum review, reducing the live no-image queue from 235 to 233. The active queue now contains 63 research-and-download records and 170 evidence-hold rechecks; no generated imagery or Vercel runtime was used.
Added the exact ESA-hosted preflight photograph of ISEE-2 and two distinct rights-reviewed, mission-produced Hope Probe EXI photographs of Mars. Three masters and 15 responsive derivatives passed identity, provenance, photographic-medium, human visual, and mounted-NAS checksum review, reducing the live no-image queue from 238 to 235. The reviewed ISEE-1 artwork remains an explicit evidence hold; no generated imagery or Vercel runtime was used.
Completed a 25-record alternate-source evidence cohort covering four SpaceShipTwo powered flights, both Dynamics Explorer spacecraft, seven OSO missions, seven Vanguard missions, Explorer 3, Explorer S-1, Beacon 1, Surveyor 2, and Surveyor 4. Exact leads were rejected where they were undersized, rights-gated, representational, generic, or tied to a neighboring mission. The 238-record manual ledger now contains 61 reviewed-source holds, 132 records still requiring provider research, and 45 pre-existing evidence-hold rechecks, with direct links and acceptable-replacement requirements for every record. No generated substitute, NAS promotion, or Vercel runtime was used.
Added three distinct rights-reviewed photographs for SpaceShipOne Flights 15P, 16P, and 17P. Three masters and 15 responsive derivatives passed fixed flight/date identity, Commons license, human visual, and NAS checksum review, reducing the genuine queue to 238. Attribution and share-alike terms are retained; no generated imagery or Vercel runtime was used.
Added four exact real photographs for the IM-1 Odysseus launch, the IM-2 Athena launch vehicle, the flight CoRoT satellite, and a NEAR Shoemaker low-altitude Eros mosaic. Four masters and 20 derivatives passed source, rights, human visual, and NAS checksum review, reducing the genuine queue to 241. AKARI, DAVINCI, and DESTINY+ remain explicit holds for undersized-only or future/non-photographic source material.
Corrected the preserved technical-plate backlog: 445 of 681 plate-bearing missions already have a separately registered, checksum-staged real photograph, while the other 236 are already represented in the primary no-image queue. The redundant technical download queue is now empty, and CSV plus Markdown exports expose all 238 genuine unresolved missions for manual sourcing. A completed 438-record NASA catalog scan and 354 checksum-verified quarantine files remain audit evidence only; none were promoted. No generated imagery or Vercel runtime was used.
Added exact rights-reviewed or official institutional photographs for Chang'e 3/Yutu, Chang'e 4/Yutu-2, the flown Chang'e 5 returner, and the Chang'e 6 recovery site; four masters and 19 responsive derivatives passed identity, provenance, human visual, and NAS checksum review, reducing the queue to 245 records. Chang'e 1 and Chang'e 2 remain explicit manual holds after complete category review found only disputed renderings, replicas, diagrams, maps, or science products.
Added an exact public-domain NASA recovery-site photograph for X-15 Flight 191; its master and five responsive derivatives passed identity, rights, human visual, and NAS checksum review, reducing the queue to 249 records. Seven early communications, weather, and observatory missions remain explicit resolution or exact-identity holds rather than receiving unsafe substitutes.
Added exact public-domain NASA photographs for Enterprise ALT-14 and Pioneer Venus 2; two masters and 10 derivatives passed human visual and NAS checksum review, reducing the queue to 250 records. Telstar 2, Explorer 2, Explorer 4, Pioneer 6, Pioneer 7, Pioneer 9, and Pioneer E remain explicit resolution or exact-identity evidence holds with reviewed source leads for manual follow-up.
Added exact public-domain NASA launch photographs for STS-44 and TRMM; two masters and 10 derivatives passed human visual and NAS checksum review, reducing the queue to 252 records. Pad Abort Tests 1 and 2 and A-001 remain explicit resolution holds, while A-003 remains an exact-identity source hold.
Added exact public-domain photographs for Vanguard TV-2, Pioneer 2, and Terra; three masters and 15 derivatives passed human visual and NAS checksum review, reducing the queue to 254 records. The official JPL TOPEX/Poseidon download was rejected after visual review exposed a CALIPSO/CloudSat identity collision, and NASA's 172-by-127-pixel GRACE launch source remains an explicit evidence hold.
Added exact rights-reviewed historical photographs for Vostok 2, Vostok 4, Vostok 6, the flown Voskhod 1 capsule, and Luna 9; five masters and 24 derivatives passed human visual and NAS checksum review, reducing the queue to 257 records. Vostok 3, Venera 9, and Voskhod 2 retain explicit manual-review evidence instead of unsafe substitutes.
Added exact rights-reviewed photographs for the Pioneer 8 launch, a Lunar Orbiter 2 mission frame, the Lunar Orbiter 4 launch, and Yuri Gagarin immediately before Vostok 1; four masters and 19 derivatives passed human visual and NAS checksum review, reducing the queue to 262 records. A fresh 236-record NASA catalog scan completed with zero errors and quarantined 36 candidates for the next review pass.
Added exact public-domain NASA hardware or launch photographs for Mariner 8, Echo 1A, TDRS-7, TDRS-9, TDRS-12, and TDRS-13; six masters and 30 responsive derivatives passed identity, rights, human visual, and NAS checksum review, reducing the queue to 266 records. SMS-1 remains held for an adequate-resolution source, and the Pioneer Venus 2 artwork was rejected as a photo substitute.
Added exact rights-reviewed launch or flight-hardware photographs for Danuri, THEMIS-ARTEMIS, SMAP, CloudSat, the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, and Sentinel-2; six masters and 30 responsive derivatives passed human visual review and NAS checksum audit, reducing the queue to 272 records.
Completed the refreshed 240-record NASA catalog pass with zero request errors, checksum-verified 37 quarantined candidates, and rejected all 37 after contact-sheet review as non-photographs, designation collisions, science products, or insufficient exact-mission compositions; every direct source lead remains in the 266-record manual ledger.
Visually approved six exact NASA, National Archives, or rights-reviewed public-domain flight photographs and checksum-staged their masters plus 30 responsive derivatives on the mounted NAS.
Replaced the shared Enterprise visual lookup with sixteen mission-specific keys so eleven unresolved tests remain honest no-image states instead of repeating another flight's photograph.
Recorded 19 researched evidence holds with direct source leads before continuing the active queue.
Downloaded exact NASA catalog records by fixed media identity and rejected any record whose title or descriptive mission evidence drifted.
Visually approved all five quarantined photographs, then checksum-staged five masters, 25 responsive derivatives, and a batch manifest on the mounted NAS.
Added official crew portraits for Expeditions 35, 46, 50, and 69 from fixed NASA catalog records and NASA's captioned mission page, then checksum-staged four masters and 20 responsive derivatives on the NAS.
Added exact NASA launch photographs for Soyuz MS-04, Soyuz MS-13, SpaceX Demo-1, SpaceX Crew-1, and SpaceX Crew-6, with five masters and 25 responsive derivatives checksum-staged on the NAS.
Corrected numeric mission-boundary matching, processed all 507 active records, checksum-audited 171 exact-phrase NASA candidates, and visually rejected 147 non-photographs, wrong identities, weak compositions, or duplicate alternates.
Approved 24 exact real photographs across ISS logistics, commercial cargo, planetary science, Earth science, astrophysics, and Tracking and Data Relay Satellite records, then staged 24 masters and 120 responsive derivatives on the NAS.
Optimized three oversized approved masters under the six-megabyte NAS-only source budget while preserving their original masters and derivatives in checksum-addressed superseded backups.
Added exact public-domain NASA photographs for Soyuz TM-32, Soyuz TM-33, Soyuz TM-34, Soyuz TMA-18M, and the uncrewed Soyuz MS-14 after rights-metadata and contact-sheet review; five masters and 24 derivatives are checksum-verified on the NAS.
Removed discovery-only raw media-file links from mission citation lists while retaining each reviewed media-record page and the complete file provenance in the media registry.
Mapped the site's early ISS cargo numbering to NASA's exact spacecraft designations and added public-domain photographs for Progress M1-3, Progress M1-4, and Progress M-45; Progress M-44 and Progress M-46 remain explicit manual-source holds with NASA reference-guide leads.
Added nine exact NASA photographs for Progress M-51, M-55, M-58, M-60, M-62, M-63, M-64, M-65, and M-66 after spacecraft-number mapping and contact-sheet review; Progress M-54 remains a documented source hold.
Added 22 exact public-domain NASA photographs for Progress M-16M, M-24M, M-26M, M-29M, MS-01, MS-02, and MS-04 through MS-13 plus MS-24 through MS-29; all 22 masters and 106 derivatives passed visual and NAS checksum review.
Recorded Progress M-67, M-27M, and MS-22 as explicit manual-source holds after the reviewed NASA and Commons channels exposed no defensible mission-specific still.
Added five exact official NASA launch, docked, and approach photographs for Progress 91 through 95; all five masters and 24 responsive derivatives passed visual and NAS checksum review.
Added exact NASA launch or rollout photographs for Dragon C2 and SpaceX CRS-1, CRS-4, CRS-7, and CRS-8 plus a rights-reviewed NASA approach frame for HTV-1; all six masters and 30 derivatives passed visual and NAS checksum review.
Completed a strict NASA catalog pass across all 427 research-and-download records with zero request errors, checksum-verified 114 quarantined candidates, and visually reviewed 106 photographic candidates across seven contact sheets.
Approved exact conventional or mission-acquired photographs for LCROSS, 2001 Mars Odyssey, CALIPSO, and the GPM Core Observatory; four masters and 20 responsive derivatives passed NAS checksum audit while 102 false-name, non-photograph, weak-composition, or alternate candidates remained rejected.
Added five official Blue Origin in-flight photographs for NS-16 and NS-18 through NS-21 after exact gallery-caption, rights, and contact-sheet review; five masters and 25 responsive derivatives passed NAS checksum audit.
Added seven exact official Virgin Galactic photographs for Galactic 01 through Galactic 07 after operator-press-page, checksum, metadata, and contact-sheet review; seven masters and 34 responsive derivatives passed NAS checksum audit.
Researched all 74 remaining Soyuz records through exact rights-reviewed Commons categories and quoted searches, reviewing 229 metadata candidates and downloading 33 plausible photographic files into quarantine.
Approved twelve conventional photographs for Soyuz 29, T-6, T-12, 35, 18, TM-14, TM-24, TM-9, TM-20, TM-21, TM-27, and TM-23; twelve masters and 57 derivatives passed NAS checksum audit.
Published a 62-record Soyuz manual-review report with direct query and candidate-page evidence: 21 visual rejects, 34 unsuitable metadata-result sets, and seven searches with no rights-reviewed candidate.
Completed exact-name and alternate-number research for all 28 remaining Mir expeditions, reviewing 63 rights-filtered metadata candidates without silently treating transient request failures as no-match results.
Added seven distinct mission photographs for Mir EO-18 through EO-23 and EO-25; seven masters and 35 responsive derivatives passed visual review and NAS checksum audit.
Published a 21-record Mir manual-review report with direct exact and alias query evidence: nine unsuitable metadata-result sets and twelve searches with no rights-reviewed candidate.
Researched all 23 remaining Shenzhou records against 213 rights-filtered Commons candidates and excluded watermark-removed derivatives, montages, models, and neighboring mission collisions before download.
Added eight conventional photographs for Shenzhou 7, 12, 13, 14, and 16 through 19; eight masters and 40 derivatives passed human visual review and NAS checksum audit.
Published a 15-record Shenzhou manual-review report: three visual collage rejects, seven unsuitable metadata-result sets, and five searches with no rights-reviewed candidate.
Ran a fresh checkpointed NASA pass across all 384 current research records, checksum-verified 102 quarantined candidates for 57 missions with zero request errors, and recorded a visual decision for every candidate.
Rejected all 102 bulk candidates as non-photographs, name collisions, data products, weak compositions, or insufficient exact-mission evidence, then published a 412-record manual/provider review ledger with direct source leads.
Added three distinct official NASA pilot-and-aircraft photographs tied by NASA to X-15 Flights 87, 91, and 138; three masters and 15 responsive derivatives passed contact-sheet and NAS checksum review while ten exact-flight records remain documented holds.
Added seven official Blue Origin apogee, capsule-interior, or launch-operations photographs for NS-22, NS-28, and NS-30 through NS-34; seven masters and 35 derivatives passed contact-sheet and NAS checksum review.
Added exact official Blue Origin launch and capsule-operations photographs for NS-36, NS-37, and NS-38; three masters and 15 derivatives passed contact-sheet and NAS checksum review.
Ran the refreshed 371-record NASA discovery queue to completion with zero request errors, checksum-verified 102 quarantined candidates, visually rejected all 102 identity collisions, data products, non-photographs, and weak compositions, and retained every source lead for provider research.
Added the exact official SpaceX Inspiration4 launch photograph under CC BY-NC 2.0; its master and five responsive derivatives passed contact-sheet and NAS checksum review.
Added the exact official Polaris Program photograph of the Polaris Dawn launch under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0; one master and four unadapted, proportionally resized delivery copies passed contact-sheet and NAS checksum review.
Added exact official Blue Origin capsule photographs for NS-25 and NS-26; two masters and ten responsive derivatives passed mission-patch, crew-identity, contact-sheet, and NAS checksum review.
Added exact official Virgin Galactic release/ascent and in-cabin flight photographs for Unity 22 and Unity 25; two masters and ten responsive derivatives passed contact-sheet and NAS checksum review.
Added the exact official Virgin Galactic spacecraft-mounted photograph of Unity 21 in space over New Mexico; its master and five responsive derivatives passed identity, contact-sheet, and NAS checksum review.
Added exact NASA-hosted photographs for VSS Unity VP-03 and Powered Test 3; two masters and ten responsive derivatives passed date, mission, source, visual, and NAS checksum review.
Added the official Fram2 mission-site photograph of its four-person crew beneath SpaceX flight hardware; its master and five responsive derivatives passed caption, identity, visual, and NAS checksum review.
Added exact NASA-hosted MARS Scientific tracking photographs for VSS Enterprise PF01 and PF02; two masters and ten responsive derivatives passed mission-date, credit, visual, and NAS checksum review.
Published a five-record commercial-flight manual-review list with direct official video or investigation evidence after rejecting branded video thumbnails, generic imagery, and fatal-accident wreckage as mission-card substitutes.
Regenerated the remaining mission-photo queue at 387 records across 16 resumable cohorts: 359 alternate-provider research records and 28 evidence-hold rechecks.
Added exact NASA/JPL mission-produced lunar photographs for Ranger 8 and Ranger 9; two masters and nine responsive derivatives passed source, identity, contact-sheet, and NAS checksum review, reducing the queue to 385 records: 357 alternate-provider research records and 28 evidence-hold rechecks.
Added exact NASA-hosted spacecraft, launch, or mission-produced photographs for XRISM, OSIRIS-REx, New Horizons, InSight, Deep Impact, and MAVEN; six masters and 30 responsive derivatives passed source, identity, contact-sheet, and NAS checksum review, reducing the queue to 379 records: 351 alternate-provider research records and 28 evidence-hold rechecks.
Added exact NASA-hosted mission or mission-produced photographs for Mars Pathfinder/Sojourner, Stardust, Kepler, SPHEREx, PUNCH, and WISE/NEOWISE; six masters and 30 responsive derivatives passed source, identity, contact-sheet, and NAS checksum review, reducing the queue to 373 records: 345 alternate-provider research records and 28 evidence-hold rechecks.
Added exact official ESA spacecraft or launch photographs for Hera, XMM-Newton, BepiColombo, Herschel, Planck, and Gaia; six masters and 29 responsive derivatives passed source, identity, contact-sheet, and NAS checksum review, reducing the queue to 367 records: 339 alternate-provider research records and 28 evidence-hold rechecks.
Queued and completed the first post-ESA mixed institutional cohort: exact official photographs for CHEOPS, EarthCARE, Plato, Dragonfly, CAPSTONE, and the Van Allen Probes added six masters and 30 responsive derivatives. All 36 image files and the manifest passed visual and NAS checksum review, reducing the queue to 361 records: 333 alternate-provider research records and 28 evidence-hold rechecks.
Added exact official NASA spacecraft, processing, or launch photographs for GOES-16, GOES-17, ICESat-2, STEREO, Landsat 8, and TEMPO. Six masters, 30 responsive derivatives, and the batch manifest passed source-identity, contact-sheet, and NAS checksum review, reducing the queue to 355 records: 327 alternate-provider research records and 28 evidence-hold rechecks.
Added exact official DOS/ISRO launch, processing, or spacecraft photographs for Chandrayaan-1, Chandrayaan-2, Chandrayaan-3, Aditya-L1, AstroSat, and XPoSat. The six original WebP masters, 30 responsive derivatives, and batch manifest passed rights, visual, and NAS checksum review, reducing the queue to 349 records: 321 alternate-provider research records and 28 evidence-hold rechecks.
Completed a fresh queue-identity-locked NASA catalog pass across all 321 eligible records: 60 checksum-verified candidates for 34 missions reached four contact sheets with zero request or NAS-audit errors; all 60 were rejected after human review as designation collisions, science products, event imagery, non-photographs, or insufficiently exact compositions, and their direct source evidence is retained for manual research.
Added exact official ESA spacecraft photographs for Hipparcos, Envisat, Sentinel-1, SMART-1, INTEGRAL, and the International Ultraviolet Explorer. Six masters, 30 responsive derivatives, and the batch manifest passed rights, identity, visual, and NAS checksum review, reducing the current queue to 343 records: 315 alternate-provider research records and 28 evidence-hold rechecks.
Added exact rights-reviewed spacecraft, launch, or reentry photographs for Hitomi, Suzaku, Hayabusa, Kaguya, Akatsuki, and MMX. Six masters, 28 responsive derivatives, and the batch manifest passed institutional provenance, license, identity, visual, and NAS checksum review, reducing the current queue to 337 records: 309 alternate-provider research records and 28 evidence-hold rechecks.
Added exact public-domain NASA spacecraft, assembly, integration, or test photographs for SAS-1, OAO-3, COBE, GALEX, TRACE, and IBEX. Six masters, 27 responsive derivatives, and the batch manifest passed institutional provenance, identity, visual, source-size, and NAS checksum review, reducing the current queue to 331 records: 303 alternate-provider research records and 28 evidence-hold rechecks.
Completed the refreshed 303-record NASA catalog pass with zero errors, checksum-audited 45 quarantined candidates, and visually rejected all 45 designation collisions, science products, illustrations, briefings, or insufficient compositions while preserving direct evidence for manual research.
Added exact public-domain NASA or NOAA hardware and launch photographs for TIROS 1 through 4, Telstar 1, Syncom 2, and Intelsat I. Seven masters, 34 responsive derivatives, and the batch manifest passed institutional provenance, identity, visual, unretouched-source, and NAS checksum review, reducing the current queue to 324 records: 296 alternate-provider research records and 28 evidence-hold rechecks.
Added exact public-domain NASA or NOAA hardware photographs for TIROS 5, TIROS 9, Nimbus 1, and Nimbus 3. Four masters, 19 responsive derivatives, and the batch manifest passed institutional provenance, identity, visual, and NAS checksum review. TIROS 10 and ATS-1 diagrams were explicitly rejected as non-photographs and retained for alternate-source research, leaving 320 records: 292 alternate-provider research records and 28 evidence-hold rechecks.
Added exact public-domain mission-produced weather or Earth photographs from TIROS 6, TIROS 7, TIROS 8, TIROS 10, ATS-1, and ATS-3. Six masters, 30 responsive derivatives, and the batch manifest passed institutional provenance, original-scan, exact-spacecraft, visual, and NAS checksum review, reducing the current queue to 314 records: 286 alternate-provider research records and 28 evidence-hold rechecks.
Added exact public-domain NASA hardware photographs for ATS-4, ATS-5, ATS-6, Echo 2, and ISEE-3. Five masters, 25 responsive derivatives, and the batch manifest passed source identity, photographic-medium, visual, and NAS checksum review. An ISEE-1 artwork candidate was explicitly rejected and retained for alternate-source research, leaving 309 records: 281 alternate-provider research records and 28 evidence-hold rechecks.
Added exact public-domain or no-known-restrictions institutional photographs for Nimbus 5, OSO-6, Explorer 5, Explorer 7, Helios 1, and Helios 2. Six masters, 29 responsive derivatives, and the batch manifest passed source identity, photographic-medium, source-size, visual, and NAS checksum review, reducing the queue to 303 records: 275 alternate-provider research records and 28 evidence-hold rechecks.
Added exact public-domain Project Vanguard photographs for Vanguard TV-3BU, Vanguard TV-5, Vanguard SLV-2, and Vanguard 3. Four masters, 20 responsive derivatives, and the batch manifest passed identity, photographic-medium, bounded-source, human visual, and NAS checksum review, reducing the queue to 299 records: 271 alternate-provider research records and 28 evidence-hold rechecks.
Added exact public-domain NASA photographs for Landsat 2, Landsat 3, and Pioneer 5. Three masters, 13 responsive derivatives, and the batch manifest passed identity, photographic-medium, bounded-source, human visual, and NAS checksum review, reducing the queue to 296 records: 268 alternate-provider research records and 28 evidence-hold rechecks.
Added exact public-domain NOAA or NASA photographs for SMS-2, GOES-4, GOES-G, GOES-9, OGO-3, and OGO-6. Six masters, 28 responsive derivatives, and the batch manifest passed rights, identity, visual, static-GIF normalization, and NAS checksum review, reducing the queue to 290 records: 262 alternate-provider research records and 28 evidence-hold rechecks. Five undersized or unavailable exact sources now appear with direct links in the current manual-review ledger.
Added the exact public-domain NASA launch photograph for Cygnus Orb-D1. Its master, five responsive derivatives, and batch manifest passed identity, source-size, human visual, and NAS checksum review, reducing the queue to 289 records: 262 alternate-provider research records and 27 evidence-hold rechecks. OA-5, Mir EO-1, Mir EO-28, and VSS Unity VF-01 remain explicit manual holds rather than receiving unsafe substitutes.
Corrected the delayed Cygnus OA-5 and earlier OA-6 launch-date identities across mission, vehicle, event, compact-directory, and generator records, then added the exact public-domain NASA OA-5 launch photograph. Its master, five derivatives, and manifest passed repaired-identity, visual, and NAS checksum review, reducing the queue to 288 records: 262 alternate-provider research records and 26 evidence-hold rechecks.
Processed all 262 researchable missions in the refreshed NASA sweep with zero errors, checksum-audited and visually rejected all 41 designation collisions, science products, briefings, adjacent events, and insufficient compositions, then added the exact public-domain NASA April 23, 1962 Ranger 4 launch photograph. Its master, five derivatives, and manifest passed identity, rights, visual, and NAS checksum review, reducing the queue to 287 records: 261 alternate-provider research records and 26 evidence-hold rechecks.
Added NASA Kennedy's exact public-domain Atlas-Agena 7 liftoff photograph for Ranger 5. Its 2,400-by-3,000 master, five responsive derivatives, and manifest passed vehicle identity, rights, human visual, and NAS checksum review, reducing the queue to 286 records: 260 alternate-provider research records and 26 evidence-hold rechecks.
Added exact public-domain NASA photographs for the January 30, 1964 Ranger 6 liftoff and June 14, 1967 Mariner 5 launch vehicle on its pad. Two masters, ten responsive derivatives, and the manifest passed date, vehicle, rights, human visual, and NAS checksum review, reducing the queue to 284 records: 258 alternate-provider research records and 26 evidence-hold rechecks.
Added exact public-domain NASA launch photographs for Pegasus 2 aboard Saturn SA-8 and Pegasus 3 aboard Saturn SA-10. Two masters, nine responsive derivatives, and the manifest passed mission/date identity, rights, human visual, and NAS checksum review, reducing the queue to 282 records: 256 alternate-provider research records and 26 evidence-hold rechecks. The ISEE-1 illustration/composite was rejected and recorded for exact-photo manual review.
Added exact NASA hardware photographs for IMP-3, AIMP-1, and AIMP-2 plus the rights-reviewed SDASM Archive Delta M6 prelaunch photograph for IMP-6. Four masters, 17 responsive derivatives, and the manifest passed mission identity, rights, human visual, and NAS checksum review, reducing the queue to 278 records: 252 alternate-provider research records and 26 evidence-hold rechecks. The ambiguous IMP-4 exhibit/model/composite remains on the manual-source ledger.
Exact satellite, Shuttle, and station evidence with Spaceflight Figures
Completed mission citations and opened the sourced Spaceflight Figures directory.
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Mapped 559 facts across Explorer and Beacon, Orbiting Solar Observatory, Nimbus, Transit, Applications Technology Satellite, Orbiting Geophysical Observatory, Project Echo, and Pegasus records to reviewed NASA and NTRS evidence.
Added exact inventory hashes, a fail-closed citation writer, and isolated regression coverage for all six owning archive generators.
Extended exact citation coverage to 2,441 facts across 212 missions using lightweight targeted checks; deferred the complete static rebuild and route sweep until the citation backlog is finished.
Added Spaceflight Contributors as a separate people category with reviewed Katherine Johnson and Roger Boisjoly profiles, connected mission relationships, universal-search participation, and no generated portrait substitutes.
Created a 48-person contributor research queue with explicit inclusion, evidence, identity, relationship, and portrait-review gates so the section can grow in small verified batches without changing astronaut totals.
Mapped all 2,510 displayed facts across the complete 151-record Space Shuttle archive and International Space Station Expeditions 1–49 to 185 exact NASA mission sources, raising exact coverage to 4,951 facts across 412 missions.
Added fixed cohort identity and content hashes, idempotent citation writing, and shared regeneration protection that preserves citations only when a fact's reviewed label and value remain unchanged.
Completed a second 200-record cohort spanning 31 full mission programs and International Space Station Expeditions 50–74, mapping 2,314 facts to 200 distinct reviewed mission sources.
Raised exact citation coverage to 7,265 facts across 612 missions while retaining fixed identity, content, and source-policy hashes and deferring the complete static rebuild.
Completed a third 200-record cohort covering 134 missions from the remaining smaller programs plus uncrewed ISS Progress 1–66, mapping 2,157 facts to 117 reviewed institutional sources.
Raised exact citation coverage to 9,422 facts across 812 missions; malformed Soyuz and Shenzhou date records remain deliberately outside the citation-owned set until their underlying data is repaired.
Mapped the next 1,000 facts across 100 uncrewed ISS logistics missions—Progress 67–95, ATV 1–5, Cygnus, HTV, and SpaceX CRS 1–32—to NASA's official visiting-vehicle manifest, raising exact coverage to 10,422 facts across 912 missions.
Completed the final 2,819 fact mappings across 256 ISS, Mir, Soyuz, Shenzhou, Blue Origin, and Virgin Galactic records, bringing the complete 1,168-mission archive to 13,241 cited facts with zero uncited displayed facts.
Separated inherited launch-and-landing ranges on 76 Soyuz and Shenzhou records before citation ownership, and extended the generic Soviet/Chinese regeneration guard across the completed reviewed set.
Completed the first ten-person Spaceflight Contributors research batch with reviewed profiles for Christopher Kraft, Gene Kranz, Glynn Lunney, Jack Garman, Bill Tindall, Frances Northcutt, Margaret Hamilton, Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Maxime Faget; 38 queued candidates remain deferred while other backlogs advance.
Published separate source-review and information-current-through dates for the complete 1,168-mission cohort, dated technical vehicle dossiers, and reviewed contributor profiles, with a checksum gate that prevents unreviewed missions from inheriting the completed cohort date.
Added structured astronaut career profiles and timelines from existing reviewed archive fields, covering education, service, specialties, selection, spaceflight, and explicit honors without inventing material for sparse records.
Added evidence-bound trajectory profiles to 1,098 mission dossiers and connected all 36 reviewed incident records to 34 affected missions through dedicated investigation sections.
Added cited location panels to 486 mission profiles, including internal place links, explicit map searches, and seven exact-coordinate Gemini recovery plots without runtime geocoding.
Reduced the production build from 1,265 to 207 prebuilt routes and from 14,782 to 2,591 generated response files, tightened artifact budgets, and prepared 5%-sampled real-user Core Web Vitals collection without a custom Function endpoint.
Added rendered WCAG and visual-regression coverage across 12 representative routes at desktop and phone sizes, corrected shared dark-theme contrast and definition-list semantics, and passed all 24 browser checks with zero automated accessibility, overflow, keyboard-first-focus, or interaction failures.
Extended local browser QA with accessibility-tree landmarks, Back-button search restoration, isolated search-index outage recovery, and a constrained two-thread phone profile; also fixed failed search-index promises so visitors can retry successfully without reloading the page.
Added a disposable media-restore proof that rebuilt a temporary NAS-shaped tree for two astronaut, mission, and vehicle masters plus 30 derivatives, checksum-verified all 36 files, removed the temporary copy, and kept the actual off-NAS Hyper Backup gate explicitly open.
Reconciled the NAS authority backlog around Git-built static delivery: retained the historical 4,077-document disposable proof, established the current 4,073-document and 23-kind input checksum after four duplicate Soyuz-U records were removed, retired Preview and Production runtime API-first, and added a payload-safe readiness audit while leaving the live 4,079-document NAS state untouched.
Published a second ten-person Spaceflight Contributors batch spanning early human-spaceflight program leadership, lunar mission architecture, Challenger launch-decision evidence, Soviet spacecraft design, Saturn launch vehicles, and Apollo launch operations; the directory now holds 22 institutionally sourced profiles and 40 verified mission links with no generated portrait substitutes.
Closed the Spaceflight Contributors research queue at 47 reviewed profiles, 85 verified mission relationships, zero queued candidates, and three documented scope exclusions; all portraits remain real-image-only review work.
Closed the local chronology and dossier-depth backlog with strict audit ownership for all 1,168 missions, 1,098 structured trajectories, 36 investigation records, 486 cited location profiles, and explicit external-source holds for remaining mission and vehicle imagery.
Started the unpublished astronaut review program by merging 71 manually confirmed alternate spellings, transliterations, or name-order variants into canonical search aliases and removing one misplaced published duplicate.
Completed the next 186 profile reviews with seven additional canonical merges and 175 preserved evidence holds, reducing the active needs-review queue from 1,482 to 1,225 without publishing any discovery-only biography.
Reviewed the next 600 candidate-discovery records and reduced the active queue to 625.
Completed the requested cards for both reviewed astronaut batches: 774 new source-linked profiles plus eight retained canonical cards now cover all 786 source rows with original biographies, selection context, no-flight accounting, and explicit no-photo states.
Accepted new static and media-enabled astronaut-directory baselines for all 2,277 published people after the card expansion, preserving exact v1/v2 semantic compatibility and restoring the fail-closed Vercel post-build gate.
Reorganized the growing people archive with an explicit participation-status browser, unique representatives across overall group cards, a home-linked AstronautAtlas title, five durable Spaceflight Figure categories, and a dedicated AstronautAtlas orbit favicon while preserving every existing contributor URL for compatibility.
Closed the final 625-record unpublished astronaut review queue without generating unsupported cards: 624 candidate-discovery rows and the separately sourced Ernest Joseph DuPraw draft now live in checksum-locked, reversible evidence holds, leaving zero active needs-review records and requiring authoritative identity-and-selection evidence before any hold can reopen.
Recovered the original crawl evidence behind all 625 astronaut-candidate holds: 625 direct Spacefacts pages provide 2,411 structured facts, 591 include biographical text, 374 include crawl portraits, and 21 have same-person Astronautix leads. The discovery sites do not replace independent authority; a refreshed Wikidata comparison and NASA evidence confirmed Sian Hayley Proctor as the existing Sian Proctor card.
Published the first five authority-confirmed cards reopened from the historical evidence holds: Lado Pitskhelauri, Marina Popovich, Marina Sokolova, Oleg Moskalyov, and Vera Kvasova now have multi-source selection histories, explicit no-flight accounting, and no-photo states.
Published twelve Project 714 / Shuguang candidate cards after Xinhua-cited selection lists, independent program histories, Chinese-name-order aliases, and both archived crawls agreed. Seventeen authority-confirmed cards are now complete across the first two batches.
Published authority-confirmed cards for Nataliya Gromushkina and Valentin Sidorenko using independent identity records and contemporary selection evidence. Nineteen cards are complete across the first three batches.
Researched all 605 unresolved candidate holds through a fail-closed Wikidata and Wikipedia discovery sweep, then matched and published 28 Canada 2017 candidates from the Canadian Space Agency's official roster. Forty-seven authority-confirmed cards are now complete, with exact Top 72, Top 32, or Top 17 stages.
Published authority-confirmed candidate cards for Maynard Holliday, Olga Kabo, and Vsevolod Yegorov from independent professional, institutional, and selection records. Fifty recovered cards are now complete without generated portraits or unsupported flight claims.
Recovered Richard Terrile's Spacelab payload-specialist finalist history from NASA's 1978 Johnson record and independent JPL and Caltech identity evidence.
Recovered Larry Mayer's NASA mission-specialist finalist history from independent University of New Hampshire and NOAA records.
Reviewed a fixed 100-name crawl cohort, publishing six independently corroborated NASA interview or finalist cards for Kenneth Wisian, Kevin Donegan, Laura Kay, Larry Pepper, Mark Perry, and Mark McKenney; recognized Kim Binsted and Marina Popovich as cards already recovered in earlier batches; and retained 92 evidence holds rather than inventing unsupported profiles. Fifty-eight authority cards are complete, with 566 historical holds remaining.
Finished the remaining 566-person candidate authority backlog with a checksum-locked terminal ledger: 493 records have no independent authority match, 36 discovery hits are rejected namesakes, and 37 plausible identities still lack independent selection corroboration. Every hold preserves its crawl source and explicit reopening requirements, leaving zero active authority-research records and no generated substitutes.
Started the 1,172-record vehicle image backlog with offset-safe 100-record discovery cohorts. The second cohort preserved eight official NASA catalog candidates for manual review, rejected 92 unsafe or unsupported matches, added a personnel-portrait false-positive guard, and performed no image downloads, registry changes, or NAS writes.
Completed the official-catalog vehicle-image sweep across all 1,172 no-image records: 31 exact real photographs passed visual review and produced 153 responsive derivatives, 30 candidates remain explicit visual or download-integrity holds, and 1,111 records retain terminal source dispositions. All 184 approved files are checksum-verified on the mounted NAS and the 31 masters are registered for vehicle delivery, reducing the explicit vehicle no-image backlog to 1,141; no generated substitute was used.
Completed the official-catalog mission-image sweep across all 685 no-image records: 66 exact real photographs passed visual review and produced 328 responsive derivatives, 40 candidates remain explicit visual or download-integrity holds, and 579 records retain terminal source dispositions. All 394 approved files are checksum-verified on the mounted NAS and registered for mission delivery, reducing the explicit mission no-image backlog to 619; no generated substitute or Vercel runtime media path was used.
Inspected all 346 existing approved institutional source pages connected to the remaining 619 no-image missions. Nine unique conventional photographs passed download, checksum, identity, composition, rights, and visual review and produced 40 NAS-staged derivatives; 101 candidate missions remain explicit holds, five reuse shared page imagery, and 504 declared no identity-safe photograph. The no-image mission backlog is now 610, with no generated substitute and no Vercel runtime media use.
Separated live-origin media canaries from merely NAS-staged registry changes with a checksum-pinned 2,180-asset delivery baseline. The exact cohort that had failed on an unindexed Sojourner asset then passed 15 of 15 public checks with zero valid-request errors and full warm-cache hits, without invoking Vercel runtime media.
Started the new-source mission-photo program with the nineteen remaining no-image ISS Expeditions. A second-stage NASA asset-manifest lookup downloaded eleven exact catalog candidates, visual review rejected one public-event frame, and ten clear Soyuz launch photographs plus fifty responsive derivatives were checksum-staged on the NAS, reducing the mission no-image backlog from 610 to 600 without generated substitutes or Vercel runtime media.
Completed the 22-record Cygnus mission-photo cohort using exact NASA catalog identities and reviewed NASA mission pages. Twenty real launch, spacecraft, rollout, or processing photographs plus 99 responsive derivatives are checksum-staged on the NAS, reducing the mission no-image backlog from 600 to 580; OA-5 and Orb-D1 remain on a direct-link manual-review list, and no generated substitute or Vercel runtime media was used.
Completed the first dedicated Shuttle-flight photo cohort with seven exact NASA launch photographs and 35 responsive derivatives for STS-41-C, STS-51-I, STS-105, STS-4, STS-80, STS-94, and STS-135. STS-51-A and STS-44 remain on the direct-link manual-review list, reducing the mission no-image backlog from 580 to 573 without generated substitutes or Vercel runtime media.
Completed a six-record Apollo development-photo cohort with exact NASA images for SA-1, SA-3, SA-4, SA-5, AS-102/SA-7, and AS-103/SA-9. Five launch photographs and one mission-specific Pegasus installation photograph plus 29 responsive derivatives are checksum-staged on the NAS, reducing the mission no-image backlog from 573 to 567 without generated substitutes or Vercel runtime media.
Completed the first eight-record Mercury development-photo cohort with exact NASA launch, preparation, and recovery photographs for Little Joe 1, Big Joe 1, Little Joe 1B, Mercury-Atlas 1, Mercury-Redstone 1A, Little Joe 5A, Mercury-Redstone Booster Development, and Mercury-Atlas 3. The eight masters and 39 responsive derivatives are checksum-staged on the NAS, reducing the mission no-image backlog from 567 to 559 without generated substitutes or Vercel runtime media.
Completed a ten-record historical-development photo cohort with exact NASA or rights-reviewed public-domain images for Little Joe 6, Little Joe 1A, Little Joe 5, Mercury-Redstone 1, Mercury-Atlas 5, A-002, A-004, AS-101, AS-104, and AS-105. Ten masters and 47 responsive derivatives are checksum-staged on the NAS, while five undersized or unresolved records were added to the manual-review list, reducing the mission no-image backlog from 559 to 549 without generated substitutes or Vercel runtime media.
Exact flight and early robotic mission evidence
Linked major suborbital and early NASA robotic mission facts to primary sources.
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Mapped all 143 X-15 dossier facts to NASA's complete 199-flight log, hypersonic research-program history, and astronaut-wings history with a fixed 52/52/39 source distribution.
Added a fail-closed, idempotent citation writer and permanent audit for the exact mission inventory, one-pilot crews, archive events, assignment relationships, source registry, and citation totals.
Protected the reviewed X-15 missions, details, assignments, and source records from historical suborbital regeneration and added an isolated full-generator regression test.
Mapped 110 facts for all three SpaceShipOne human spaceflights and the seven Enterprise and Unity powered-development flights to reviewed FAA, Smithsonian, NASA, NTSB, and Virgin Galactic records.
Retired generic duplicate links from the ten commercial suborbital dossiers and protected their missions, details, assignments, events, and source records from regeneration.
Mapped 525 facts across all 14 Project Vanguard, 10 Mariner, 10 TIROS, nine Ranger, and seven Surveyor mission records to reviewed NASA and NTRS sources.
Added exact inventory hashes, a fail-closed citation writer, and an isolated five-generator regression test, extending citation coverage to 1,882 facts across 162 missions without generated images or runtime work.
Exact Voskhod mission evidence
Replaced generic Voskhod dates and citations with exact NASA-backed mission facts.
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Mapped all 24 Voskhod dossier facts across two crewed missions to NASA's 1964 and 1965 mission chronologies plus one precision-duration table, separated inherited launch and landing ranges into exact dates, removed an unrelated Earth-science catalog citation, canonicalized commander-first crew order, protected the reviewed records and spacecraft from broad Soviet/Chinese regeneration, and extended the permanent fail-closed citation gate to 1,104 facts across 89 missions.
Media rollout safeguards and monitored Preview
Added media monitoring, outage checks, and static rollback proof while Production stayed on bundled images.
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Added rotating astronaut, mission, and vehicle canaries that retain per-request timing, media type, checksum, and cache evidence while separating expected invalid-request probes from real availability errors.
Scheduled small daily public-edge cohorts through the Preview review window with fourteen-day JSON evidence and no image work routed through Vercel Functions.
Added a private-origin failure test that requires a sanitized, non-cacheable response without exposing protected origin values.
Strengthened the complete static rollback build so it clears the public media origin, requires bundled image fallbacks, and rejects media-edge or image-optimizer URLs in generated routes.
Added an isolated local browser drill for three representative records; it redirects only the test browser's media hostname to an unreachable local address and never interrupts the live NAS or Cloudflare path.
Verified repeatable static exports and an exact disposable-database round trip, then repaired structured-field restoration and legacy public slugs uncovered by that proof.
Repaired mission-program tab titles and canonical links found by the expanded desktop and phone Preview smoke test.
Completed the refreshed protected Preview pass across all twenty-four desktop and phone route checks plus the Apollo 11 directory interaction, with no horizontal-overflow failures.
Hardened NAS presentation-content imports so obsolete generated topic buckets cannot silently survive a directory overlay, and prepared an exact-replacement reconciliation with database-aware rollback gates.
Added payload-free static snapshot identity reports and restricted public compatibility documents to their intended kind, slug, and payload fields while retaining recursive private-data rejection.
Minimized the private API container to compiled runtime files, migrations, and production dependencies, then required source-revision, pinned-base, platform, user, and runtime-inventory attestation before a NAS package can be assembled.
Added a fail-closed local astronaut-directory v1 retirement-readiness audit with an accepted v2 payload baseline and explicit retain, redirect, and removal gates; the live v1 response remains unchanged pending traffic, healthy-Production, and thirty-day compatibility evidence.
Mapped all 306 Project Mercury dossier facts across 26 missions to exact official NASA sources, replaced a stale planet-Mercury redirect and mis-scoped uncrewed references with six mission-specific crewed-flight pages, extended permanent citation auditing to 888 facts across 72 missions, and refreshed the derived archive reference index from current canonical source links.
Mapped all 55 Skylab dossier facts across four missions to NASA's postflight chronology, two exact launch records, and explicit mission-numbering history; retired a preflight safety review that had been mislabeled as a program summary from all 28 Skylab consumers and the legacy generator, and extended the permanent fail-closed citation gate to 943 facts across 76 missions.
Mapped all 65 Apollo-Soyuz dossier facts across five missions to six reviewed NASA and NTRS sources, normalized the two Cosmos test flights as reentries, retired four unsupported Soviet launcher records and stale recovery references, limited the Cosmos narratives to reviewed environmental-control testing and APAS-75 carriage, replaced the destructive legacy generator with a checked non-destructive repair wrapper, protected Apollo-Soyuz mission details from generic Soyuz regeneration, and extended the permanent fail-closed citation gate to 1,008 facts across 81 missions.
Mapped all 72 Vostok dossier facts across six crewed missions to three reviewed NASA sources, separated each launch date from its landing date, corrected Vostok 5's one-minute duration drift, protected the reviewed records from broad Soviet/Chinese regeneration, and extended the permanent fail-closed citation gate to 1,080 facts across 87 missions.
Replaced the three full astronaut datasets in the profile browser bundle with a deterministic 1,504-record identity table and server-completed photo fallbacks, reducing astronaut-profile first-load JavaScript from 5,212,291 to 1,418,315 uncompressed bytes and from 1,001,514 to 348,591 gzip bytes without adding a runtime endpoint.
Projected program crew records to card-visible fields before serialization, reducing the International Space Station crew page from 4,340,995 to 644,059 HTML bytes and its RSC navigation response from 3,759,032 to 324,613 bytes while preserving the complete crew directory.
Repaired the STS-45 dossier's mission-source identity so the complete 135-flight Shuttle audit once again enforces a mission-specific NASA reference for every record.
Kept Production unchanged and retained the temporary astronaut-directory compatibility response until the monitoring, explicit approval, healthy-production, and traffic gates are complete.
Reliable navigation, efficient delivery, and NAS archive readiness
Fixed navigation, reduced server work, strengthened deployment checks, and opened NAS media Preview.
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Updated the NAS roster importer so repeated snapshots replace only importer-owned assignments, then verified the full astronaut, media, mission, and archive import sequence against the preserved production data.
Restored Missions, Crew or Science, Vehicles or Spacecraft, Timeline, and Photos navigation across all 338 mission-program archives without returning to the former 160,000-page deployment.
Added post-build route-manifest coverage so program sections must retain their static-on-demand fallback and a zero-route hard-404 deployment can no longer pass the Vercel build audit.
Stopped automatic link prefetch from opening cold archive records in the background, limited crawler access to prebuilt routes, and added a bounded twelve-page deployment check that cannot become a production-wide crawl.
Prebuilt twenty high-interest Apollo, Artemis, International Space Station, and Space Shuttle program sections and extended long-tail response caching to one year while retaining every uncommon record for deliberate human navigation.
Hardened malformed vehicle addresses so invalid record identifiers resolve to the archive's not-found response instead of a server error.
Activated the fail-closed public media Worker and custom domain with a fixed checksum-versioned path grammar, workers.dev disabled, and no Vercel image Function or home-network port exposure.
Corrected edge redirect handling, retained privacy-safe upstream diagnostics, and normalized copied Cloudflare Access Client IDs without logging or exposing protected values.
Passed warmed twenty-five-item smoke canaries for astronaut portraits, mission images, and vehicle images, including derivative byte checksums, original HEAD validation, five original checksum spot-checks per group, immutable cache headers, ETags, warm cache hits, and invalid-request rejection.
Configured the public media origin for Vercel Preview only; Production remains unchanged until the monitored Preview, outage, browser-fallback, and rollback gates pass.
Verified portrait recovery and source closure
Expanded reviewed portraits and closed missing and remote-only source queues without generated substitutes.
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Approved one hundred seventeen additional identity- and rights-reviewed real portraits across Commons, NASA, CSA, ESA, Copernicus, DVIDS, and other official or institutional sources, with 421 responsive derivatives.
Preserved thirty-eight full source files totaling 28,252,947 bytes beside their reviewed subject crops on the NAS, including exact caption-position crops from historical group photographs.
Searched the complete live missing-portrait roster against DVIDS public image records with exact-name and career-context safeguards, zero retry failures, explicit public-domain checks, and no image-byte downloads during discovery; three candidates passed final identity and crop review.
Rejected place-name matches, unrelated namesakes, ambiguous group scenes, synthetic imagery, unofficial portrait hosts, and institutional photographs whose reuse rights could not be established.
Added deterministic per-person source-closure evidence spanning 114 hashed reports across Wikidata, Commons, NASA, DVIDS, Russian and Soviet sources, and international institutions: the 457-person cohort now records three finalized portraits, three quality-blocked sources, twenty-five rights-blocked sources, 426 exhausted searches, and no uncovered or still-actionable rows.
Recovered thirty-seven of the thirty-eight remote portraits whose sole prior blocker was oversized source selection by requesting exact 960-pixel Commons thumbnails, reapplying modern source and identity gates, and visually reviewing every staged portrait; the one roster URL that had changed files remains held.
Re-queried eighty-one prior identity- or identity-and-size-blocked portraits through two guarded passes, approved seventeen exact current matches with 65 responsive derivatives, and retained ambiguous identities, group scenes, and undersized files as explicit holds.
Reduced the remote-only portrait queue from 182 to 128, including the flown priority from 129 to 85, without accepting generated substitutes, ambiguous identities, or changed source files.
Reconciled all 128 remaining remote portraits to exactly one terminal disposition: thirty operator-quality holds, two legacy-quality holds, two shared-file reviews, sixty-six identity reviews, eleven rights blocks, ten credit blocks, and seven unavailable or drifted sources, with zero uncovered or conflicting rows.
Checksum-verified all 2,220 approved NAS-staged media masters and 10,368 registered derivatives with zero failures or size warnings; the browser delivery inventory exposes its 2,200 eligible assets and 10,319 eligible derivatives through direct browser-to-edge-to-NAS delivery without Vercel Function image work.
Replaced broad server-side media-registry imports with compact generated source manifests that preserve all approved and fallback-only assets, reduced the largest shared Vercel chunk from 6.06 MB to 3.87 MB, and connected Bùi Thanh Liêm's canonical profile to his already approved NAS portrait.
Moved thirty-eight conflicting unregistered NAS files into recoverable quarantine before replacement; no source or delivery files were destructively deleted.
Moved another 125 checksum-matched files belonging to thirty previously rejected portrait candidates out of canonical NAS paths and into a restore-capable quarantine ledger; approved registries and public delivery were unchanged.
Corrected an ORFEUS flight-identity mismatch with NASA's exact STS-51 photograph, preserved the prior STS-80 master and five derivatives under ORFEUS-SPAS II, and completed the checksum-guarded NAS replacement with no deletions or conflicts.
Astronaut Atlas at the main address
Moved AstronautAtlas to the main address, simplified routes, and reduced the static deployment.
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Made the Astronaut Atlas landing page the default destination for the main site address.
Moved astronaut, mission, vehicle, event, topic, role, and reference pages onto concise canonical archive routes while retaining compatibility for older links.
Reduced generated deployment output from roughly 160,000 pages to a focused set of 1,242 prebuilt responses, including one temporary astronaut-directory compatibility endpoint, with remaining records still available through archive navigation and search.
Removed verified unused media and excluded preservation-only responsive derivatives from Vercel packaging, keeping the measured Vercel-effective public payload at 268,468,156 bytes while retaining checksum-verified archival copies.
Separated vehicle directory reads from detail-only astronaut and mission archives, reducing the traced vehicle-program function dependency set from 29.4 MB to 4.9 MB while preserving NAS/API fallback behavior.
Added compact, reproducible mission identity and directory indexes and split shared archive readers by responsibility, cutting major list-route traces by 69–87% and reducing generated Next.js output by about 52 MB without disconnecting NAS/API reads.
Dictionary-encoded the deferred astronaut directory while preserving its filters, search fields, identities, and media fallbacks, keeping the active response at 428,345 bytes versus the prior 546,287-byte format and retaining that prior format as a temporary rollout compatibility endpoint.
Stopped presenting synthetic reference plates as photography: 685 mission records and 1,177 vehicle records now use a clear no-image state where verified imagery is unavailable, future mission-media batches only accept verified official photos, and about 92 MB of plate files are excluded from Vercel packaging while remaining intact in Git and on the NAS.
Added route-specific canonical and social metadata, structured search data, bounded sitemap discovery, and stronger static-release provenance, reproducibility, media-integrity, and rollback checks.
Verified the apex and www production addresses, canonical redirects, HTTPS certificates, security headers, analytics delivery, robots instructions, and representative archive metadata after launch.
Began the verified portrait cleanup with twenty reviewed real portraits from IIAS, NASA, JPL, U.S. military archives, and explicitly licensed Commons sources, including responsive derivatives, attribution and rights records, checksum metadata, and NAS-verified archival copies.
Localized twenty-five additional flown-person portraits from exact-name public-domain NASA records, optimized every master above the 5 MiB target, and extended checksum staging and NAS audits across the managed derivative collection.
Approved nineteen numbered Commons NAS-only portrait batches with 347 identity- and rights-reviewed portraits, 1,478 responsive derivatives, and separate source-page and direct-file records while retaining publisher fallbacks for rollout; thirty visibly weak, undersized, composite, caption-obscured, or poorly framed candidates remain held, and two drifted sources were rejected by the staging guard.
Exhausted the 523-person missing-portrait Wikidata and Commons queue with complete dispositions and zero request failures, approving six additional portraits and 25 derivatives after visual review while quarantining one unsuitable group scene; a separate official NASA catalog pass covered all 517 remaining gaps and produced no safe download candidates.
Added explicit source-research holds for every remaining missing portrait instead of accepting unofficial, generated, rights-unclear, or incorrect namesake imagery.
Implemented an opt-in, checksum-versioned media path through Cloudflare’s public cache to the guarded NAS origin, with static browser fallbacks and no Vercel Function execution for image delivery; the current registry records 2,071 NAS-staged assets and 9,789 responsive derivatives.
Replaced the Boeing Orbital Flight Test synthetic reference plate and four vehicle no-image states with five identity-reviewed official NASA photographs, preserving exact credits, responsive checksums, and NAS-only delivery while holding six unsuitable candidates.
Faster static archive delivery
Moved core pages and media fallbacks to cacheable static delivery.
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Converted astronaut, mission, vehicle, and event detail records to long-lived static pages.
Moved security headers out of request-time routing while preserving the existing browser protections.
Replaced runtime image lookups and social-card generation with checked-in static assets.
Limited crawler discovery to the archive’s collection, program, and family hubs while keeping every connected record available through normal browsing.
Kept archive search available with substantially longer shared-cache coverage.
Consistent directory browsing and verified portraits
Standardized directories and vehicle layouts, clarified statuses, and expanded reviewed portraits.
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Vehicle program results now use responsive three- and six-column grids with twelve-item pagination.
Vehicle cards and detail pages now use states such as Flown, Operational, Retired, Recovered, or Testing concluded.
Added ninety individually reviewed NASA portraits, responsive derivatives, source records, and checksum-verified archive copies.
Unified every primary archive tab around the shared top search and compact, tab-specific filters that remain tucked away until needed.
Published real review dates and source-limit disclosures on all 162 deeply reviewed vehicle-component dossiers.
Expanded every directory filter into the same grouped interface, with tab-specific category counts and detailed options tucked behind Refine results.
Mapped every Gemini and Apollo mission fact to its exact numbered official source and added a permanent citation-integrity audit.
Official portrait coverage and media readiness
Closed flown-person portrait gaps, expanded commercial imagery, and verified media staging.
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Replaced provisional portrait gaps with official NASA, operator, and institutional media where a verified match was available.
Recorded image identity, source, credit, review, and checksum metadata alongside each managed portrait.
Kept difficult or unsupported identities in the research queue instead of using unofficial portrait hosts.
Technical hardware depth and media operations
Expanded component dossiers, improved mission-to-vehicle links, and added guarded media workflows.
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Completed source-backed technical profiles for the tracked spacecraft-component collection.
Separated component relationships from crew-carrying vehicle relationships so hardware pages use accurate language.
Added checksum reconciliation, conflict detection, replacement review, and a documented intake queue for official media.
Program exploration and managed media
Made large program archives more compact and added repeatable media, accessibility, and evidence checks.
