Reporters Invited to International Space Station Social Media Event

Feb. 15, 2013

Trent J. Perrotto
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov

MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-032

REPORTERS INVITED TO INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION SOCIAL MEDIA EVENT

WASHINGTON -- Journalists are invited to participate in a NASA Social
from 9:30 a.m. to noon EST Wednesday, Feb. 20, in the James Webb
Auditorium of NASA Headquarters at 300 E St. SW in Washington.

During this event, 150 social media followers and their guests will
speak with three of the six crew members currently aboard the
International Space Station orbiting about 240 miles above Earth. The
participants also will hear from agency scientists and engineers
about ground-breaking research taking place daily on the orbiting
laboratory.

NASA Socials are in-person meetings for people who engage with the
agency through Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and other social networks.

Participants in this NASA Social will learn about the discoveries
enabled by the space station's unique microgravity environment that
benefit humanity and increase our understanding of how humans can
safely work and live in space for long periods.

Astronauts and officials scheduled to meet with the NASA Social
participants are:

-- Astronauts Kevin Ford and Tom Marshburn of NASA and Chris Hadfield
of the Canadian Space Agency will participate from the space station
-- NASA astronaut Don Pettit, a former space station resident
-- Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA's associate administrator for human
exploration and operations Mission Directorate
-- Marshall Porterfield, director of NASA's Space Life and Physical
Sciences Research and Applications Division
-- Tara Ruttley of NASA, an associate space station program scientist

NASA Television will broadcast the social from 10 a.m. to noon at:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

In the afternoon, NASA has partnered with the Smithsonian
Institution's National Air and Space Museum, where NASA Social
participants will tour the Moving Beyond Earth and Space Race
galleries, see demonstrations, interact with museum staff and and
hear museum curators talk about the space station, robots in space
and Skylab.

Registration for social media participants for this event has
concluded. News media interested in attending either session of the
NASA Social should contact Trent Perrotto at 202-358-1100 by 5 p.m.,
Tuesday, Feb. 19. News media interested in covering the afternoon
session also must contact Isabel Lara at the National Air and Space
Museum at 202-633-2374 by 5 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 19.

To follow the conversation with the NASA Social participants as they
experience the day's events, use hashtag #NASASocial or follow @NASA
and @NASASocial on Twitter.

For more information about the International Space Station, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/station

To find all the ways to connect with NASA on social media, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/connect


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