Keith’s observe: This merchandise was posted on NASA.gov on 8 Could 2024: “OTPS seeks enter from the lunar neighborhood to tell a framework for additional work on non-interference of lunar actions“. Cool stuff – and essential as human exercise on the Moon begins to broaden with many new gamers. However who knew about it? I checked and there was no e-mail from NASA PAO on this. After I take a look at the NASA press release web page there’s nothing talked about. No point out is made on the 80 million-follower @NASA Twitter account both. So there doesn’t appear to be a lot in the way in which of curiosity by NASA PAO in pushing out information about OTPS stuff – nonetheless cool and related it could be. The NASA Workplace of Expertise, Coverage and Technique has a hyperlink however it’s a must to know to go there to seek out the hyperlink. OTPS has no social media presence. The OTPS AA Charity Weeden doesn’t have a Twitter account and her LinkedIn account doesn’t do a lot. Her Deputy has a Twitter account (I assume it’s hers) @AerospaceFury that has been inert since 2017. Nevertheless, I did stumble throughout this OTPS factor for the primary time on a LinkedIn put up overtly associated to an official NASA effort by Therese Jones (the Level of Contact for this NASA exercise) which I promptly appreciated and reposted. However after I went to go looking out her Twitter account for an official put up I found that she has blocked @NASAWatch (and my private account) – thus making it laborious to easily retweet it. So, I used one other account to see if I may entry her Twitter account and found a tweet here from 1:33 pm EDT as we speak after which grabbed the hyperlink and tweeted it on @NASAWatch. Her Twitter account has ~2,500 followers. @NASAWatch has 50 occasions as many followers. Not that large – however 118,000 is greater than the lone NASA-related worker account’s 2,500 – the one account that was speaking about this exercise. It’s good that somebody took the initiative to get wider publicity for this when official point out was missing. However wouldn’t you assume that a company and its workers – with such an essential function – one saddled with an underpowered PAO/outreach functionality – would wish to take advantage of exterior/earned media – and never overtly block individuals/accounts that may assist get the great phrase out? I suppose not.
