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Life Off-Planet Affects Planet-Bound

Whatever we learn about humans living outside this planet helps make life safer and better here on Earth. Your life may depend on it. Continue reading

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Kids and Social Media: What the Buzz?

Students use social media tools for homework and daily interaction with classmates and friends. They’re jazzed about anything that involves their friends (interaction) or what friends/others think is cool (the buzz factor). Continue reading

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Mission: Moon Rock

A Los Angeles Times article (posted by NASAWatch on Twitter) about moon rocks recovered from a filing cabinet brought back memories of my very first job at NASA — moon rock recovery. Fresh out of grad school at the LBJ … Continue reading

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How Twitter is like Mission Control

Door Jam Saga: Twitter became my own personal Mission Control! TWisson Controllers offered tips and moral support. Continue reading

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Space Tweeps: Flying High

What’s my ROI for using Twitter? The chance to give 100+ tweeters the thrill of a lifetime with today’s Shuttle launch. They couldn’t stop grinning…and giggling…and thanking us for sharing what WE do for a living — this thing we call “space.” Continue reading

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Twittersphere: Social Space Frontier

Of all the new media tools available to NASA, Twitter offers the most intimate, immediate 24/7 access through mobile devices, laptops, and/or traditional keyboard access — in my humble opinion. Continue reading

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NASA Tweet-Up: Live Space Link

Space is an unforgiving business. What we do is hard. Continue reading

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NASA: Cultural Dust Storm

When everyone was looking for moondust from the LCROSS mission to crash land into the moon, I noticed something else — a cultural dust storm inside the agency. Did you see it too? Continue reading

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Culture: Straitjacket or Springboard?

Gov 2.0:Transparency can be quite threatening, especially if one’s power base is built on insider knowledge that is closely held and doled out like currency to buy more power. Continue reading

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EarthShip NASA: Exploring the American Pioneering Spirit

EarthShip NASA: an idea to connect NASA’s can-do pioneering spirit with folks out in the heartland who do the very same thing…but for their families and communities. Continue reading

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