NSSDCA also serves as NASA's permanent archive for space physics mission data.
NSSDCA was called the National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) prior to March 2015.
Staffing level, including civil service and onsite contractors, has ranged between 15 and 100 over the life of NSSDCA.
Starting in the mid-1980s, NSSDCA received and disseminated increasing data volumes via electronic networks.
[1] The NSSDC Master Catalog is available for the queries pertaining to information about data that are archived at the NSSDC as well as for supplemental information via the following query mechanisms: This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.