An individual may submit a FOIA request to NASA by mail, fax, electronic mail, or in person to one of the eleven NASA FOIA Center offices, as listed below. Your request must be in writing. No telephone requests will be accepted.

If you do not know the exact title of the document you are seeking, you should provide a reasonable description of the documents. The more information that you can provide about the document, such as its author or date, the more expeditiously your request will be processed. Your request will be logged and a tracking number assigned to it. The tracking number assigned is of great importance to you as a requester because, in the event you would like to check the status of your request, the number enables us to locate where in the process your request is.

This NASA FOIA Homepage includes a link to each NASA Center Homepage, as well as a link to the NASA FOIA Contacts List. The Contacts List has the telephone and fax numbers, and the appropriate contract number assigned to that Center.

You should submit your request directly to the FOIA Office, at the NASA Center, that authored the documents. If you do not know which Center to contact, then you may submit a request to NASA Headquarters and we will attempt to identify the responsible Center and forward your request.

A link is also included to the NASA FOIA Regulations, "Availability of Agency Records to Members of the Public" which will provide you with more detailed information concerning the processing of your FOIA request.

Also each NASA FOIA Center has and maintains separate electronic reading rooms, which have records that are responsive to that Center’s records.