An Educational Outreach Guinness World Record for NASA Goddard
Goddard Helps Set 2 Guinness World Records, NASA
“Then on March 10, 2013, 526 space enthusiasts gathered to set the record for “Largest Astronomy Lesson” in Austin, Texas, at the South by Southwest festival. Looking up through hundreds of colored filters and spectral glasses, participants were instructed on the lawn of the Long Center for the Performing Arts.”
Mars’c note: For anyone who might be interested the previous record was 458: “The largest astronomy lesson involved 458 participants (all Mexico) at an event organised by Juarez Competitiva, at the Samalayuca Desert in Chihuahua, Mexico, on 14 October 2011.”