NASA Finds Down-to-Earth Savings

NASA's astronauts are the Columbuses and Megellans of today, seeking riches—not of gold, but of knowledge. Indeed, NASA is the ultimate knowledge-driven organization. NASA's basic mission might be summarized very simply: gain new knowledge from space, then get it to people who can use it.

The printed word figures very prominently in NASA's effort to carry out both of these mandates. A family of electronic publishing and print-on-demand systems has helped NASA bring about a quantum leap in the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of its information dissemination. The electronic publishing and print-on-demand systems combine document reproduction, revision, storage and transmission into one seamless operation.