{"id":5296,"date":"2013-11-14T19:18:57","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T19:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5296"},"modified":"2013-11-14T19:18:57","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T19:18:57","slug":"a-nasa-meetup-for-space-enthusiasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5296","title":{"rendered":"A NASA Meetup for space enthusiasts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a report on a NASA Social<\/a> event in Pasadena, California :\u00a0Inside a NASA Meetup, Where Science Fans Become Space Ambassadors – Underwire\/Wired.com<\/a><\/p>\n

The NASA Socials are the brainchild of JPL News and Social Media Manager Veronica McGregor, who started the program in January of 2009 (in those days, they were called \u201ctweetups\u201d; NASA switched to \u201csocials\u201d in 2012). For a year, McGregor had seen NASA\u2019s burgeoning social media community connect space fans around the world. Now, she wanted to see if that engagement could translate to real life.<\/p>\n

Four years and over 70 events later, nearly 5,000 space enthusiasts have attended 73 NASA meetups at 10 locations. Some give attendees a front-row seat to milestone events like launches and landings; others \u2014 like the one we\u2019re at now \u2014 are intensive introductions to current and upcoming missions. Cumulatively, their impact has been significant: Not only have they given NASA fans an up-close and personal glimpse of their space program, but they\u2019ve created a legion of enthusiastic and informed ambassadors for science and space exploration, armed with new tools and connections.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe NASA Social alumni community are family to me,\u201d says\u00a0Shannon Moore<\/a>. She\u2019s been attending NASA tweetups and socials since the STS-129 launch in November of 2009. These days, she\u2019s one of the group of volunteers who run and maintain the community wiki\u00a0NASAtweet.com<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 the unofficial online hub for NASA socials and other space-related meetup events.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Here’s a report on a NASA Social event in Pasadena, California :\u00a0Inside a NASA Meetup, Where Science Fans Become Space Ambassadors – Underwire\/Wired.com The NASA Socials are the brainchild of JPL News and Social Media Manager Veronica McGregor, who started the program in January of 2009 (in those days, they were called \u201ctweetups\u201d; NASA switched … Continue reading A NASA Meetup for space enthusiasts<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-space-participation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1nq","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5317,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5317","url_meta":{"origin":5296,"position":0},"title":"MAVEN rocket rolls to the pad amid NASA social media event","author":"TopSpacer","date":"November 16, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The Atlas V rocket with the MAVEN\u00a0Mars probe aboard rolled out to the pad today. 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