Posts Tagged ‘NASA’

NASA has evolved as a federal agency that is exceedingly active on social media sites. Of late, the space agency took another innovative move and became the first federal agency to join Google Plus.

The agency had one of the first websites on the Internet and was one of the first accounts on Twitter in 2007 and started tweeting toward the end of 2008. NASA’s Twitter Meetups on some of the last shuttle launches have been extremely popular along with online distribution of satellite photos and news.
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Google promoted one Android “reference device” (phone) in 2010 and 2011. The 2011 reference device was the Nexus S made by Samsung. It was the first Android phone to feature NFC (Near Field Communications), a front-facing camera and run Android OS 2.3 (Gingerbread). This past July, it also added the distinction of being the first and last Android phone to go into space on the final space shuttle mission.
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YouTube interviews have become a really cool way for every day people to get their questions answered by everyone from President Obama to Elmo and now NASA astronauts will be fielding your questions live as they hurdle around the planet at 17,500 miles per hour.

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Today, the world is still struggling with natural disasters, human rights issues, massive oil spills and leaking nuclear power plants. It is a challenge and momentous moment to share the need to save our natural resources. With that said, here are 5 social media Earth Day web sites to help celebrate this important day of the year.

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Fifty years ago today, on April 12, 1961, Soviet pilot and cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin completed the first space orbit of Earth. To pay tribute to Yuri Gagarin, NASA Astronaut Cady Coleman and Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson have performed the first ever Space-Earth Duet.

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Remember Timothy Creamer, the astronaut who sent the first Tweet from space in January 2010? Creamer’s bosses at NASA are embracing Twitter with weightless enthusiasm, and the 140-character service responded in kind, pushing the government agency’s accounts in a post on the Twitter Blog:

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The Digital IQ Index: Public Sector ranks 100 different public sector groups on their effective use of social media. We’ll show you the top ten social media-savvy public entities, as well as which groups failed this IQ test miserably.

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Foursquare has just announced the first check-in by someone out of the Earth’s orbit, creating a NASA Explorer badge to commemorate the event.

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Location-based mobile app foursquare may have just surpassed the 4 million-user mark, but the only one of those 4 million who can boast about earning the NASA Explorer badge is International Space Station Commander and NASA astronaut Doug Wheelock, as he recorded the first check-in from outer space, TechCrunch reported.

The outer-space check-in is part of a partnership between NASA and foursquare, under which the two parties created a special site, according to TechCrunch, which added that the other 3,999,999-plus users who can’t make it to the International Space Station will be able to earn the NASA Explorer badge by checking in to NASA-related sites here on Earth.

Now, for some of that freeze-dried ice cream …