NASA Social Spins a Webb

NASA Social Spins a Webb

NASA is hosting an event for their social media followers on Jan. 22, 2014, in celebration of all the instruments and key 

elements of the James Webb Space Telescope arriving at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

This NASA Social will bring 40 social media users together at NASA Goddard to hear details about the James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST. Participants will get behind-the-scenes tours of NASA Goddard's satellite and testing facilities and hear presentations by NASA scientists and engineers. 

** NASA Social participants and their friends and family are also invited to attend a launch party celebrating the launch of NASA's next Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, or TDRS-L, from NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The NASA Goddard Visitor's Center will be open with experts, presentations and live NASA Television coverage the launch, currently scheduled for approximately 9 pm EST, Jan. 23, 2014. **

JWST is the world’s next-generation space observatory and successor to the Hubble Space Telescope that will launch later this decade. The biggest and most powerful space telescope ever, JWST will provide images of the first galaxies ever formed, connecting the Big Bang to our own Milky Way galaxy and allowing us to explore planets around distant stars.

NASA Social participants will have the opportunity to:

• Observe JWST flight hardware in the world’s largest cleanroom.
• Get a behind-the-scenes tour of NASA Goddard's world-class integration and test facilities that will ensure that JWST hardware and other spacecraft and instruments will successfully survive the rigors of launch and space.
• Have one-on-one interactions with JWST scientists, engineers, and other NASA leaders, including Nobel Laureate John Mather.
• Hear from NASA scientists and engineers about designing and building:
  • Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission, four identical spacecraft that will orbit Earth making three-dimensional measurements of its magnetosphere.
  • Global Precipitation Measurement Core satellite, the largest Earth science satellite integrated and tested at NASA Goddard.

Registration will be open from 12 p.m. (noon) EST on Dec. 18, 2013, and closes at 12 p.m. EST Jan. 3, 2014.