OSIRIS-REx Social Media Event

[IonStorm]

Social media users are invited to apply for credentials to attend the targeted Sep. 8 launch of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. OSIRIS-REx is the first-ever NASA mission to travel to an asteroid, retrieve a sample, and return the sample to Earth.

If your passion is to communicate and engage the world via social media, then this is the event for you. Take the opportunity to be on the front line and share the excitement of the OSIRIS-REx launch with your followers on social media.

A maximum of 100 social media users will be selected to attend this two-day behind-the-scenes event on Sept. 7-8.

NASA Social participants will have the opportunity to:

• view a launch of ULA Atlas V rocket
• tour NASA facilities at Kennedy Space Center
• hear from OSIRIS-REx scientists about what they hope to learn from this first-ever asteroid sample return mission
• speak with representatives from NASA, ULA and Center for the Advancement of Science in Space.
• view and take photographs of the Atlas V rocket on the launch pad
• meet fellow space enthusiasts who are active on social media
• meet members of OSIRIS-REx, ULA and NASA's social media teams

Registration is now open on this page.  For U.S. citizens active on social media, the deadline to apply is 1 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2016. All social media accreditation applications will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

Details at http://www.nasa.gov/social/osiris-rex-social

 

[The Raging Sandwich]

Cool! I'm guessing you're on the OSIRIS-REx team?

[Majorjim!]

If I could afford the flight tickets I would be there in a heart beat. 

 Good luck to all those hoping to attend, I'm sure it will be an awesome two days!

[IonStorm]

7 minutes ago, The Raging Sandwich said:

Cool! I'm guessing you're on the OSIRIS-REx team?

Yes.  I have a challenge as well:

 

[legoclone09]

I gotta get @Matuchkin here!

[Matuchkin]

If high school didn't exist, I might be able to do this.