#nasasocial — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #nasasocial, aggregated by home.social.
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if the #NASAsocial folks haven’t secretly arranged for a reconditioned #Hasselblad 500EL camera ( #Apollo-flown if possible) loaded with actual film to be on board #Orion for the #ArtemisII mission to snap an “ #Earthrise II” image I’ll be quite disappointed 🛰️📷🌖🌏
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for any #NASA folks still monitoring the #NASAsocial hashtag, please please PLEASE:
– make it SOP to put up a super simple straightforward one-page mission timeline that has every significant mission event with a built-in TZ converter so folks playing along at home can set their local time zone & get accurate updated timings 🙏
– make it as low-tech as you can – mostly text, minimal “fancy” crap (JS, WebGL, user-tracking frameworks 🤮, etc.)
– link to it prominently at / near the top of the mission homepage, maybe with a handy “Next up: $MissionEventName” label as well
– publish an iCal feed that folks can either subscribe to or download^
– update the timings as they slip or advance as best you can (and have a single source of truth that’s used to update both the mission timings page & the iCal feed, obvs.)
– yes, I’m def open to a fully-remote position on your #SciComms team so long as I can mostly work UTC+10ish-friendly hours 😜
#kthxbai
^ and then also maintain a canonical page with all your mission iCal feeds in one place – something like nasa[.]gov/SpaceNerds/MissionData/feeds/iCal/ would be appropriate 😜 -
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Hearing about the sad loss of contact with the MAVEN spacecraft reminded me that following my visit to KSC to see the launch, I made a 45 minute video about my amazing experience.
Meeting such an amazing group of space enthusiasts was something that evoked an emotion that has never left me, and I will be with me for the rest of my life. You feel passion, joy and a very strong bond with these people.
If you have 45 minutes free, I invite you to watch "What is a NASA Social", by me G7IZU. Throughout the video I insert tweets from the group as they occurred in "realtime". For non-UK viewers, the occasional appearance of a small yellow stuffed bear is related to a live charity TV programme made every November by my employer (BBC) called Children In Need. The bear, Pudsey, is its mascot.
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"The hidden story behind one of SpaceX’s wettest and wildest launches" by @ArsTechnica/@SciGuySpace - 10 years ago today, #NASA #CRS3 launch to #ISS caused questions about dirt splashed on rocket. (I was there with #NASASocial.) https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/04/the-hidden-story-behind-one-of-spacexs-wettest-and-wildest-launches/ #NewSpace #SpaceX #Falcon9
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In 2014 when I attended a #NASASocial to cover #SpaceX #CRS3 #CargoDragon launch to #ISS, #NASA gave a tour of the Vehicle Assembly Building. There's an #STS107 sign on the wall where recovered parts from Columbia were stored after the investigation. #DayOfRemembrance #space #history
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In 2014 when I attended a #NASASocial to cover #SpaceX #CRS3 #CargoDragon launch to #ISS, #NASA gave a tour of the Vehicle Assembly Building. There's an #STS107 sign on the wall where recovered parts from Columbia were stored after the investigation. #DayOfRemembrance #space #history
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In 2014 when I attended a #NASASocial to cover #SpaceX #CRS3 #CargoDragon launch to #ISS, #NASA gave a tour of the Vehicle Assembly Building. There's an #STS107 sign on the wall where recovered parts from Columbia were stored after the investigation. #DayOfRemembrance #space #history
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In 2014 when I attended a #NASASocial to cover #SpaceX #CRS3 #CargoDragon launch to #ISS, #NASA gave a tour of the Vehicle Assembly Building. There's an #STS107 sign on the wall where recovered parts from Columbia were stored after the investigation. #DayOfRemembrance #space #history
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In 2014 when I attended a #NASASocial to cover #SpaceX #CRS3 #CargoDragon launch to #ISS, #NASA gave a tour of the Vehicle Assembly Building. There's an #STS107 sign on the wall where recovered parts from Columbia were stored after the investigation. #DayOfRemembrance #space #history
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When you apply for a #NASASocial social media press pass, set expectations appropriately...
* You pay for your travel to Florida for the launch.
* Rocket launch schedules can and often do change.
In 2014 I made 3 trips to Florida to cover #CRS3 cargo launch to ISS. My pic: