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NATIONAL EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCES DATA CENTER (NESSDC)

********************* general information *************************

The NESSDC primary mission is to support the science user community by
archiving and distributing scientific data and information.

Over 6 terabytes of data have been archived at NSSDC over the past 25
years. Some are available as photos, some as paper copies, some on
magnetic media, and some data is on-line or near-on-line.  To find out
about the data, NSSDC provides several publications, and a publicly
accessible on-line information service (the NSSDC or NODIS account)
which combines a personnel data base of the user community, a directory
service to locate space and earth science data around the world, a data
request service, the International Solar-Terrestrial Program (ISTP)
bulletin board, the OMNI-tape combining key space plasma physics data
from nearly all missions, and geophysical models.

The NSSDC also provides services throught the Nasa/OSSA Office of
Standards and Technology (NOST) standards office, as well as on-line
Standards and Technology Information System (STIS) through the NODIS
account.

The World Data Center for Rockets and Satellites is located at the NSSDC
and operates the SPACEWARN bulletin and the Satellite Situation Center.
The space science community is supported through the Coordinated Data
Analyses Workshop (CDAW) Program, and  the Astronomical Data Center
(ADC).

Various Earth Science data systems are located at the NSSDC. These are
Nasa Climate Data System (NCDS), the Pilot Land Data System (PLDS), and
the Crustal Dynamics Data Information System (CCDIS).

NSSDC is active in developing future data systems through their
involvement in Catalog Interoperability, NSSDC Data Archive and
Distribution Service (NDADS), and the development of standards.

The NSSDC provides data for the cost of reproduction, and in some
cases for free. Data requested from outside the USA needs approval
from the director, Dr. James L. Green.

******************* accessing the on-line information system ***********

From Nasa Science Internet (SPAN)  NSI/DECnet:

             SET HOST NSSDCA
 username:~ NSSDC

From the internet:

             TELNET nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov
 username:~ NSSDC

From the OMNET:

             GOTO NSSDC

Dial-in lines:

             Dial 301-286-9000
 CONNECT 1200 (or 2400 or 300) ~
             Enter several carriage returns
 ENTER NUMBER ~
             MD
 CALLING 55201 (or 55202) ~
 CALL COMPLETE ~
             Enter several carriage returns
 username:~ NSSDC

The square brackets  ~ indicate the response of the computer.

*********************** The User Support Office **********************

During regular office hours (remember the NSSDC is at the east coast
of the USA) the user support office will help you to locate data and
with your order.

Coordinated Request and User Support Office

Address:
  NSSDC/Code 933.4
  Goddard Space Flight Center
  Greenbelt, MD 20771

Email: NCF::REQUEST                  (NSI/DECnet)
Email: request@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov  (Internet, bitnet)

Phone: (301) 286-6695
FAX:   (301) 286-4952
