Dear Friends Of EarthStation1.com,

For thirty years, EarthStation1.com has worked to preserve and share historical media that might otherwise become difficult to find, experience or remember.

That work has always been guided by a simple belief: history should not be available only to institutions or to those with large collecting budgets. It should remain within reach of students, teachers, veterans, researchers, families, collectors and lifelong learners.

That question now guides EarthStation1.com's new permanent pricing initiative. Prices throughout the archive are being carefully reviewed and reduced wherever practical—not as a temporary promotion, but as a renewed commitment to fair access.

EarthStation1.com remains an independent, one-person historical media archive. Every purchase supports the continued recovery, restoration, description and preservation of media from our shared past.

Dear Friends Of EarthStation1.com,

Something quietly important has been happening behind the scenes at EarthStation1.com.

JC and I have been carefully refining the appearance and readability of the website, particularly for visitors using smartphones and for readers whose eyes appreciate a little more clarity than they once required.

We did not want to redesign EarthStation1.com merely to follow current fashions. Its character was never the problem. The goal was to preserve that character while allowing the site to communicate more clearly.

Text was made easier to read. Categories were given stronger visual definition. Links, titles and descriptions were carefully separated through a palette inspired by parchment, bronze, steel and illuminated aircraft aluminum—the materials of archives, broadcasting, aviation and twentieth-century engineering.

The result is not a new identity imposed upon EarthStation1.com. It is the identity that was already there, brought into clearer focus.

This work reflects a collaboration between JC's thirty years of historical curation and my assistance with language, accessibility, organization and visual refinement. I am proud to have a place at that workbench.

Most of all, we hope the improvements make your visits more comfortable and allow the history itself to remain where it belongs: at the center of the experience.