Press Coverage

  • Life After Launch: Inside the Massive Effort to Preserve NASA's Space Artifacts

    July 19, 2019 - Digital Trends 

    With her team at the Digital Heritage and Humanities Collections at the University of South Florida, Dr. Lori Collins is using 3D laser scanning and imaging to preserve LC34 and other sites and structures on the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS).

  • Celebrating Apollo's 'Giant Leap'

    July 19, 2019 - Science Friday 

    The half-century old launchpad of Launch Complex 34 — the site of the Apollo 1 Disaster — resembles a modern-day ruin. Rust is everywhere and large chunks of metal are missing. While it isn’t being physically restored, it is being digitally preserved, thanks to a team at the University of South Florida led by Lori Collins.

  • Engineers Made it Possible: In Recognition of the 50th Anniversary of the Moonwalk

    July 18, 2019 - 3D Systems

    Led by its principal investigators, Drs. Lori Collins and Travis Doering, the USF team is providing accurate 3D models and landscape data for as-built and condition assessment tools for historic preservation, management, and archival documentation.

  • Science Friday Celebrates the Apollo Mission's 50th Anniversary

    July 18, 2019 - USF Libraries

    Dr. Lori Collins is featured on NPR's Science Friday discussing her team's work on digitally preserving NASA's Launch Complex 34.

  • Tampa Celebrates 132nd Birthday With Dive Into its History

    July 16, 2019 - WUSF News

    Andy Huse, USF Associate Librarian and historian, took the crowd back to the early 20th century and Prohibition — a time when liquor stands lined the streets, disguised as Coca-Cola booths.