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

[Ron Baalke]

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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