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WASHINGTON, April 17, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's social media team has received the Space Foundation's Douglas S. Morrow Public Outreach Award, which is presented annually to an individual, team or organization that has made significant contributions to public awareness and understanding of space programs. The award was presented on Monday, April 16, during the opening ceremony of the 28th National Space Symposium at The Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, Colo. (Logo:...
GREENBELT, Md., April 5, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Visitor Center in Greenbelt, Md. will host this month's Sunday Experiment on Sunday, April 15 from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. EDT. It's a free afternoon for elementary-aged school children and their families with a look at how NASA explores space and studies the Earth from space using satellites and other technology. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) This month's...
EDWARDS, Calif., April 4, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA will host 75 social media followers May 4 to go behind-the-scenes and learn more about NASA aeronautics, science and other projects at the agency's Dryden Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force Base in California. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) Dryden is NASA's primary center for atmospheric flight research and operations. Its remote location in the western Mojave Desert is uniquely...
WASHINGTON, March 28, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Much of the technology we rely on daily was developed by NASA for space exploration and adapted or enhanced for use here on Earth. This includes many technologies used in schools, homes, cars, computers and industry. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) Musician Will.i.am talks about how some of the agency's outstanding accomplishments in space are used to improve our life on Earth in a new public service...
NASA's activities in social media were recognized on Monday in New York when the agency's official Twitter feed, @NASA, received a Shorty Award for the best government use of social media. The Shorty Awards honor the best of social media across sites such as Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, YouTube, Foursquare and others. NASA's nomination cited multiple aspects of the agency's social-media efforts, including the popular Angry Birds in Space game and encouragement of science among young people....
WASHINGTON, March 27, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's activities in social media were recognized on Monday in New York when the agency's official Twitter feed, @NASA, received a Shorty Award for the best government use of social media. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) The Shorty Awards honor the best of social media across sites such as Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, YouTube, Foursquare and others. NASA's nomination cited multiple aspects of the...
WASHINGTON, March 9, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA and the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum will invite 30 of their social media followers to the first "NASA Social" on April 19 to welcome space shuttle Discovery to the national collection. Registration opens at noon EDT Thursday, March 15, and closes at noon Friday, March 16. Thirty participants will be selected randomly from online registrations. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) For...
NASA is expanding its successful program of Tweetups to include more social media platforms, broadening the agency's use of social media to engage audiences about the agency's mission of exploration and discovery. As part of this effort, the "NASA Tweetup" will now be known as "NASA Social." Since 2009, NASA has hosted 34 in-person Tweetups, which are informal meetings of people who use the social messaging medium Twitter. Hundreds of participants have shared thousands of tweets, pictures,...
WASHINGTON, March 7, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA is expanding its successful program of Tweetups to include more social media platforms, broadening the agency's use of social media to engage audiences about the agency's mission of exploration and discovery. As part of this effort, the "NASA Tweetup" will now be known as "NASA Social." (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) Since 2009, NASA has hosted 34 in-person Tweetups, which are informal meetings...
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The NASA team, who provided medical, survival and engineering expertise to help the miners trapped underground in Chile last year, received the National Security and International Affairs Medal from the nonprofit Partnership for Public Service. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) The team -- led by Michael Duncan, former deputy chief medical officer at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston -- was...
