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http://nasa.gov doesn’t resolve!
Final shuttle launch from above, July 8, 2011
Earlier today while writing my blog post about the final Space Shuttle launch, I discovered that NASA, for all its space age technology, apparently hasn’t set up its website correctly as most organizations do.
In some browsers if you leave the http://www. off the front of nasa.gov, you won’t get to the website.
I tried this in disbelief in FireFox, Internet Explorer and Opera, and they all failed, so I think it’s a website configuration error.
In Safari, you can type just nasa.gov in the address bar and reach the website. But if you type http://nasa.gov, it won’t work, whether on a PC, a Mac or an iPhone.
In FireFox, Opera and Internet Explorer, you can’t type either nasa.gov or http://nasa.gov into the browser address bar to get to the site.
http://www.nasa.gov works in all the browsers I tried.
Try it yourself with these links:
I haven’t encountered this kind of misconfiguration on such a major website in many years. Hopefully NASA will see this post and make the fix as soon as possible.
