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Searchable NASA stills, video, and audio (launch audio, mission clips, press kits). This is not a CC0 SFX pack. US government NASA media is generally not copyrighted in the United States, with three traps that keep this out of active: (1) images.nasa.gov returned a JS shell with no license sentence on 2026-08-24, so the grant is the Brand Center guidelines, not the library UI; (2) the commercial section talks about editorial use in "published works that are not promotional" plus a ban on implying NASA endorsement, which does not clearly cover shipping media inside a commercial game; (3) third-party stills on NASA pages stay with their marked owners. NASA 3D Resources is the 3D sibling and is active on the same guidelines. This library entry stays needs-review until a game-use sentence exists or counsel reads the promotional clause.
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NASA insignia, worm, and employee likenesses on cover art or ads need extra clearance. Merchandise has its own approvals page
"generally are not subject to copyright" includes "audio, video" and 3D texture/polygon files. That is a US copyright statement, not a worldwide trademark waiver
Do not put the meatball on a store page. Do not write "official NASA game"
Still open (re-checked 2026-10-04): the guidelines are unchanged on the points that matter. They still never mention games or software products; the commercial section still pairs "used editorially within published works that are not promotional in nature" with the no-endorsement rule; and third-party material is still mixed in item by item ("NASA occasionally uses copyright-protected material of third parties"), so each item's credit line has to be checked. commercial stays unknown until NASA says whether a commercial game counts, or counsel reads the clause
Checklist: guidelines page loaded, commercial not an explicit game grant, attribution requested, not a marketplace, NASA is the supplier, not blocklisted, catalog claims no rights
Review: confirm whether a commercial game counts as permitted use under NASA's guidelines, and check each item's third-party credit line.
Evidence
Live guidelines (2026-08-24): "images, audio, video ... generally are not subject to copyright in the United States"
Live guidelines, COMMERCIAL USE (2026-08-24): "must not explicitly or implicitly convey NASA's endorsement"
Live guidelines (2026-08-24): "used editorially within published works that are not promotional in nature"
Live images.nasa.gov (2026-08-24): HTTP 200, no license quote in the fetched body (SPA)
Live guidelines (2026-10-04): "NASA content – images, audio, video, and media files used in the rendition of 3-dimensional models, such as texture maps and polygon data in any format – generally are not subject to copyright in the United States."; "NASA should be acknowledged as the source of the material."
Same page (2026-10-04): "NASA occasionally uses copyright-protected material of third parties with permission on its website. Those images will be marked identified as copyright protected with the name of the copyright holder. NASA's use does not convey any rights to others to use the same material."
Same page, COMMERCIAL USE (2026-10-04): "NASA imagery can be generally used editorially within published works that are not promotional in nature."; "If the NASA material is to be used for commercial purposes, including advertisements, it must not explicitly or implicitly convey NASA's endorsement of commercial goods or services."
Same page, Media including Identifiable Persons (2026-10-04): "using the media for commercial purposes may infringe that person's right of privacy or publicity, and permission should be obtained from the person."
