Aug 1, 2012

John Yembrick/Jason Townsend Headquarters, Washington 650-604-2065/202-358-0359 john yembrick@nasa gov / jason c townsend@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

-end-

To subscribe to the list, send a message to: hqnews-subscribe@mediaservices nasa gov To remove your address from the list, send a message to: hqnews-unsubscribe@mediaservices nasa gov

The following information is a reminder of your current mailing list subscription:

You are subscribed to the following list: [list_name]

using the following email: example@example.com

You may automatically unsubscribe from this list at any time by visiting the following URL:

https://aus-city com/cgi-bin/dada/mail cgi/u/NASA_REPORTS/example/example com/

If the above URL is inoperable, make sure that you have copied the entire address Some mail readers will wrap a long URL and thus break this automatic unsubscribe mechanism

You may also change your subscription by visiting this list's main screen:

<[program_url]/list/[list]>

If you're still having trouble, please contact the list owner at:

<mailto:[list_owner_email]>

The following physical address is associated with this mailing list:

[physical_address]