Press coverage
Since August 2011, the WRAL Morning News with it’s average 96,000 viewers has invited me in to share some of the incredible things going on in space exploration. Here are some highlights.
TV
WRAL 8am News, Oct 7, 2012, SpaceX CRS-1
WRAL 6 & 10pm news, Aug 6, 2012, Curiosity landing
WRAL/WRAL 8am news, Aug 5, 2012, Curiosity landing
Blog series
- Curiosity by the Numbers
- Curiosity, an Astrobiologist on six wheels
- Curiosity carries new tools to Red Planet
- Mars exploration, past, present and future
- Mars rover making trip through time, space”
WRAL/WRAZ 5,6,7 & noon news
transit of Venus
Accompanying blog post saw 27k+ hits that day
WRAL 5pm News, 5-4-2012
Supermoon
WRAL Morning News, 5-4-2012
SpaceX
WRAL Morning News, 3-26-2012
Salem Elementary ARISS contact
WRAL Morning News, 2-10-2012
Star Naming Services
WRAL Morning News, 1-13-2012
Globe at Night
WRAL Morning News, 12-16-2011
Telescope buying tips
WRAL Morning News, 11-24-2011
Mars Science Laboratory
WRAL Morning News, 11-14-2011
Orion drop test, Soyuz return to the ISS and a bit on the Mars Science Laboratory.
WRAL Morning News, 2011-10-28
on the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project (NPP) mission
WRAL Morning News, 2011-09-10
on the GRAIL mission and LRO images of Apollo landing sites
WRAL Morning News, 2011-08-05
The Juno and the end of the shuttle program. (August 2011) This was followed-up by 2 phone interviews the morning of the launch and 2 wrap-up reports the following monday featuring video and photos I’d shot.
WRAL Morning News, 2011-08-08 7am
launch day phoner 1
WRAL Morning News, 2011-08-08 8am
launch day phoner 2,
WRAL 6pm News , 2011-07-08
coverage of STS-135 launch viewing at Wright Brothers Memorial
- NASA Grows Audience, AP, ABC News, Atlanta Journal Constitution, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, Salon, Chile and many others 11/15/2011
- Go Ask Mom on WRAL coverage of STS-133 launch viewing at NC Museum of Natural Science
- Cary News, Astronaut Aerobics event, (July 20, 2011)
- Cary News, What it takes to launch a satellite (August 7, 2011)
Other electronic and web news
- Wake County government newsletter , Hubble Space Telescope talk and hands on activity
- Examiner, Telescope petting zoo at Wake County Public Library branch
- Yuri’s Night event, Planetary Decadal Survey discussion at Chapel Hill astronomy club
NASA Education Weekly Activity Reports:
Some of the outreach efforts I’ve been involved in have caught JPL’s attention and appear in these reports which summarize educational efforts of NASA Centers. They are a great thing to share with the schools, libraries and other venues to show that their taking time from their schedule to host a NASA volunteer is visible throughout the agency. I’m told that occasionally, when the topic is pertinent, some these reports are filtered further up the chain and end up on the oval office desk via the Office of Science and Technology Policy. Particularly around STEM education efforts.
Google does a good job of indexing reports including events I’ve been involved in:
