Virtually no one seems to be watching @NASA Spaceflight For Everybody Symposium yet #NASA has a global brand reach unlike any other space agency & few other organizations #NASA is clueless when it comes to targeting an audience but is unsurpassed in its raw ability to reach one. https://t.co/YZNpyOp0K9
Spaceflight for Everybody Symposium is interesting and boring. Speakers range from people like @AstroSerena who is engaging and is actually talking to the audience and the there are other @NASA people who talk to their powerpoint slides using way too much jargon 1/2 https://t.co/WLdrp8ys6l
The presentation this morning (Wednesday 10 Nov ET US) from ESA on opening space to people with disabilities (parastronauts) was 100% inspiring. Paired with Jenn Fogarty’s talk, it makes you realize that *everyone* in space needs some sort of tweaked accommodations to make it all work for them. I’m thrilled to see ESA working seriously on this and trust that NASA and the commercial providers of access to space are also thinking about how to make their systems work for a broader range of abilities. Exclusion of categories of ability, at the end of the day, makes us weaker in space, just as it does on Earth. https://www.esa.int/About_U…
Call me a nitpicker, but perhaps one issue is that the first I heard of the “Spaceflight for Everybody Symposium” is when I came across this page after the symposium was long over. If it was for “everybody” why did hardly anyone know it was happening?
I’ll give you that it went out to 50M of NASA’s Twitter followers, but it’s easy to get lost in the dozen or so tweets a day from the account. There was no mention of it on their YouTube site and I can’t find anything on NASA.gov. Facebook just has two notes that are just copies of the two Tweets about the symposium. It finally took searching all of Facebook to find a third mention of the symposium which had a link to a page with a link to the NASA landing page for the symposium: https://www.nasa.gov/hrp/sp… (Contains links to a recording of the symposium…so at least that’s something.)
The presentation this morning (Wednesday 10 Nov ET US) from ESA on opening space to people with disabilities (parastronauts) was 100% inspiring. Paired with Jenn Fogarty’s talk, it makes you realize that *everyone* in space needs some sort of tweaked accommodations to make it all work for them. I’m thrilled to see ESA working seriously on this and trust that NASA and the commercial providers of access to space are also thinking about how to make their systems work for a broader range of abilities. Exclusion of categories of ability, at the end of the day, makes us weaker in space, just as it does on Earth. https://www.esa.int/About_U…
Call me a nitpicker, but perhaps one issue is that the first I heard of the “Spaceflight for Everybody Symposium” is when I came across this page after the symposium was long over. If it was for “everybody” why did hardly anyone know it was happening?
I’ll give you that it went out to 50M of NASA’s Twitter followers, but it’s easy to get lost in the dozen or so tweets a day from the account. There was no mention of it on their YouTube site and I can’t find anything on NASA.gov. Facebook just has two notes that are just copies of the two Tweets about the symposium. It finally took searching all of Facebook to find a third mention of the symposium which had a link to a page with a link to the NASA landing page for the symposium:
https://www.nasa.gov/hrp/sp…
(Contains links to a recording of the symposium…so at least that’s something.)