NASA technical report numbering schemes Q&A

• NASA technical report numbering schemes Q&A by leovinus on 09 Apr, 2022 17:31
• While the NASA technical report server (NTRS) at ntrs.nasa.gov has lots of reports, literature references form the 1960s might refer to "NASA report NAS8-22222" or similar, and not to a NTRS DocId.
  
  For one report in front of me, it is called
   NASA TM X-53049 (a technical memorandum)
  and
   N64 26979
  and on NTRS as
   19640017065
  
  For reference, the list of NTRS docs in the thread List of selected NTRS documents from 1980 or before has only title, NTRS DOCID, and year, but no other document IDs.
  
  And then we sometimes see "NAS8-xxx" and "NAS9-xxx".
  
  And Army and Air Force do other numberings only vaguely related like  "SR xxx" or "AD xxxx" numbers.
  
  Therefore, I wondered whether there is
  (a) a public database or spreadsheet with NASA reports from the 60s that enables a cross reference to find documents? A spreadsheet like
  
  <NTRS number> , <NASA study number>, <TM number> ,<etc>, <title> ?
  
  which would allow to discover the "newer" NTRS numbers based on NAS or N64 numbers and facilitate further sleuthing?
  
  (b) A document that describes the naming conventions for these 60s NASA memoranda and reports?
  
  (c) Anything else relevant ?
  
• #1 by Jim on 09 Apr, 2022 19:59
• a.  no
  b. no. 
  c.
  NTRS has the year of the report added in the accession number.
  NAS8-xxx" and "NAS9-xxx" is contractor report and contract number that the report was produced under.
  AD XXXXX is the Defense Technical Information Center accession number.
  N64 26979 is an early accession number, I believe.
  
  https://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/about/Organizations/TechPubs/Manual/formatreports.html
  
  NTRS has all the reports including export controlled.  The interface is the only way to search them.
  
  Study numbers are meaningless unless you are searching for a specific one.  Much like NRTS numbers, they are sequential, and don't aid in searching for similar reports.