NASA and the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum Invite Social Media Followers to Welcome Space Shuttle Discovery

March 9, 2012

Trent J. Perrotto
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-0321
trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov

Isabel Lara
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
202-633-2374
larai@si.edu

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NASA AND THE SMITHSONIAN'S NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM INVITE SOCIAL MEDIA FOLLOWERS TO WELCOME SPACE SHUTTLE DISCOVERY

WASHINGTON -- 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.

For more information on NASA Social and to register, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/social

A NASA Social is an event for people who use NASA's social media
accounts. For this event, fans and followers on Twitter, Facebook and
Google+ are eligible to register. Each participant may invite one
guest and all registrants must be 13 or older.
The social media group will tour the Smithsonian's Steven F.
Udvar-Hazy Center; speak with museum curators, NASA scientists and
engineers; and have the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity of viewing and
photographing space shuttles Enterprise and Discovery together.
Participants also will meet fellow space enthusiasts who are active
on social media and members of the Smithsonian and NASA social media
teams.

NASA officially will transfer Discovery into the Smithsonian's
collection April 19 in an outdoor ceremony open to the public. The
event will begin with Discovery's arrival from adjacent Dulles
International Airport onto the tow road behind the center. That
evening, specialists from NASA and the museum's collections division
will begin repositioning Enterprise and Discovery. Enterprise has
been on display at the center and is moving to New York's Intrepid
Sea, Air and Space Museum. Discovery will be moved inside the
center's James S. McDonnell Space Hangar to be displayed permanently.

For information and updates about Discovery arrival events, visit:

http://discovery.si.edu

The National Air and Space Museum operates two buildings in the
Washington area: the flagship building on the National Mall and the
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va., near Dulles. Both
facilities are open daily from 10 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. (closed Dec.
25).

To find all the ways to connect and collaborate with NASA, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/connect

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