FOIA Documents: NASA security emails on the NSSDCA archive
A NASA FOIA release provided to Urgent Matter.
This page hosts records NASA released under the Freedom of Information Act about the blocking of the NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive website at the Goddard Space Flight Center.
NASA produced the records on July 30, 2026. They were provided to Urgent Matter this month.
The space agency released 93 pages in full and 117 in part, withheld 61 pages in full and marked 38 as duplicates, citing Exemptions 5, 6, 7(C) and 7(E).
Read the story: NASA said its space archive was down for ‘maintenance.’ Its security office shut it down.
NASA kept archive of spacecraft records offline for months
Emails show the security block lasted at least six months.
Adam Schrader
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