[meteorite-list] NASA Hosts MSL Social Media Events Across Seven Agency Field Centers

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 16:05:34 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <201208012305.q71N5Yn9007545_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

Aug. 1, 2012

John Yembrick/Jason Townsend
Headquarters, Washington
650-604-2065/202-358-0359
john.yembrick at nasa.gov / jason.c.townsend at nasa.gov

MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-144

NASA HOSTS SOCIAL MEDIA EVENTS ACROSS SEVEN AGENCY FIELD CENTERS

WASHINGTON -- NASA's social media followers at seven field centers
around the nation will virtually come together at a NASA Social on
Friday, Aug. 3, to preview the landing of the Mars Science
Laboratory's (MSL) Curiosity rover on Aug. 6 EDT (Aug. 5 PDT).

NASA Socials are in-person meetings with people who engage with the
agency through Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and other social networks.
Events will be held simultaneously at the Ames Research Center in
Moffett Field, Calif.; Glenn Research Center in Cleveland; Goddard
Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.; Jet Propulsion Laboratory
(JPL) in Pasadena, Calif.; Johnson Space Center in Houston; Kennedy
Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., and Langley Research Center in
Hampton, Va. Kennedy will be celebrating its 50th anniversary during
its NASA Social.

>From 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. EDT, every center will be connected with JPL,
which manages the MSL mission for NASA, via a multi-center NASA
Television simulcast. NASA Social participants at each center will
have the opportunity to ask questions of the JPL science and
engineering teams during the simulcast. More than 150 social media
followers also will tour their respective host NASA center.

You can view the social online during the day Friday by visiting a
NASA dashboard at: http://www.nasa.gov/social. To get an inside view
during the simulcast with all the centers participating, view the new
NASA superchannel and select webcam views at
http://www.ustream.tv/nasa. The NASA Social speaker program and news
conferences also will be carried on http://ustream.tv/NASAJPL with
live moderated Web chat.

After the multi-center events on Friday, the JPL NASA Social will
continue with activities on Saturday, Aug. 4, and Sunday, Aug. 5, for
25 participants. They will have the opportunity to tour JPL,
participate in news conferences and be present when the first signal
of the rover's landing is detected by JPL mission control.

To join and track the conversation online during the NASA Socials,
follow the hashtag #NASASocial. Use and reference the #MSL hashtag
for mission updates. NASA will be taking questions from social media
users during select news conferences and other televised news events
using the hashtag #askNASA.

For more information on the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity mission,
visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/msl

The public can follow the mission on Facebook and Twitter at:

http://www.facebook.com/marscuriosity

and

http://www.twitter.com/marscuriosity

For information about connecting and collaborating with NASA, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/connect

For NASA TV streaming video, schedules and downlink information,
visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

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Received on Wed 01 Aug 2012 07:05:34 PM PDT