Here is a comparison of the letters in the NASA meatball logo with Priamos Heavy
Would take quite a bit of editing to make it match.
I have not checked Bambi, but it might take a somewhat similar amount of editing.
Don

Info from Typophile [offline since April 15] http://typophile.com/node/56531
"The meatball is a hand-lettered graphic created by one James Modarelli, agency employee, in 1958, in his spare time."
Don

Could edit Bambi
Don

I like the last one, Good finished tone.
So when will we see your version -- which I know would be head & shoulders above the the sloppy version now available?
Don

It seems the Book -- available from sources such as Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Alternative-ABCs-Chunky-Dave-Parmley/dp/1934429392/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1310752318&sr=8-1 -- does not include the font in digital form.
However, the book is reasonably priced and a font maker could be use it's large scale images as a starting point. AFAIK nobody has done this yet.
Don

Yes, Manuscript Captals -- copyright 1972 by Letraset according to my old Letraset Product Manual.
The same name and design is also shown as "Robert Trogman Foto Star Manuscript Capitals" with no mention of the Letraset copyright. Source Luc Devroye: http://luc.devroye.org/fonts-49306.html
I have no idea who actually designed Manuscript Capitals, although I suspect that Robert Trogman picked it up from Letraset for his FotoStar company rather than did the design himself.
Don

FALL
Don

It would be difficult to make these overlaps with a font.
However, I did find a font with almost identical letter-forms.
Don

Note the use of inverted [reverse] contrast in _NAPOLETANE_
You can get fairly close by using Antique Olive Bold Condensed, particularly if you compress it more.
Don

EDited:
Perhaps the cards were originally lithographed or hand drawn rather than assembled direct from fonts, with the possible exception of the yellow stripe with the word _EXTRA_.
However, compress John Hancock CP and you are very close to _MODIANO_.
Don

Not as many interlocks as Billboard, but similar weight and degree of regularity.
Don

Could be hand lettered in a style called "interlock." Most fonts in this style have a rough cut appearance in the manner of Ed Interlock or Saul Bass lettering.
Here is a substitute font with about the same weight and degree of regularity.
Don

Looking back at our discussions in another thread about copyright, perhaps there is some validity in the position that we should not say too much about how to get web-fonts. After all, I do hope we will endeavor to not compromise the protection of the intellectual property of artistic creators of the fonts.
Don

Thanks.
What did we ever do before google -- the parent company reorganized into silos and renamed today as Alphabet [based on a stock valuation joke] -- which found it immediately. The Cyrillic lowercase is an interesting application of a demi-serif demi-script.
Don

Good to know. Not included in the webfont for the share campaign.
Don

"Copyright (c) 2012 by Ian Brignell Lettering design & David Rault - DesignBoard Sofia. All rights reserved."
Don

I tinkered with Times LT Bold in a font editor and agree with your call that it is the closest similar font when vertically stretched.
I also tried a moderately larger vertical stretch than your recommendation to match the lettering with the outline blanked out

Don

Thanks. Lets see if this works

This is the lettering with the outline blanked out and compressed in height 50%.
Looks like this is the font before it was compressed in width.
Nearest I can find is Georgia bold, but that's not an exact match.
Any ideas?
Don

Edited message:
OK I'll try the BBCode but how do I get it to pick up an image from my computer?
I want to show what the base looks like when it is compressed 50% in height so that it can be matched with a font.
Which is a different image than this one.

Don

Seems to be from a Japanese game. So it could be a compressed version of wider font -- a common practice in the Latin subset of Japanese and other East Asian fonts.
Note that the period is an oval about half the width of a circle.
The closest substitute I can find for the compressed font, ignoring the outline effect is Nimbus Roman Modern Compress D
Don