posted 12-24-2013 02:56 AM               

Season's Greetings from NASA Television 2013

The theme of this year's holiday greeting is "Children's Imagination".

Inspired by Brian Basset's Red and Rover comic strip, this year's NASA Season's Greeting takes us into the imagination of a ten-year-old who loves all things NASA.

When you are home on a snowy day, with your trusty canine companion, and only the contents of your yard, shed, and garage — how can you build all your favorite NASA stuff?

Look carefully, in this piece you will find a beach ball, shutters, shoe box, trashcans, plastic food containers, round snow sled, welding gloves, water cooler bottles, paint can, fishing pole, tuna cans, holiday ribbon, rocks, sports drink bottle, soup can, pet's water dish, barrel, ruler, 2x4, storm windows, ladder, shovel, lattice fencing, recycle bin, and a wagon.

posted 12-31-2013 03:55 AM               

NASA Sends Out of This World New Year’s Greeting in Times Square

NASA astronauts will help ring in 2014 by sending greetings from space and from Earth to the crowd gathered in New York's Times Square on New Year’s Eve.

Astronaut Mike Massimino will participate in the New Year’s Eve Countdown event on Tuesday evening, Dec. 31. He also will introduce a video greeting from Expedition 36 flight engineer Karen Nyberg, who returned from the International Space Station in November, and from three of the astronauts currently on board the space station: NASA's Rick Mastracchio and Mike Hopkins, and Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.

The New Year’s countdown will be shown from 6 p.m. to 12:15 a.m. EST on the Toshiba Vision screen atop One Times Square, right below the New Year countdown ball. Eddie Temistokle, senior manager of corporate communications and corporate social responsibility for Toshiba America Inc., will welcome Massimino to the stage at 9:47 p.m.

Mastracchio, Hopkins and Wakata are part of a six-member crew currently on the orbiting laboratory, along with Oleg Kotov, Mikhail Tyurin and Sergey Ryazanski of the Russian Federal Space Agency.

Prominently positioned below the world-famous Times Square New Year's Eve Ball, the dual LED screens will allow revelers in Times Square to see this special greeting from space.

Several NASA events have been broadcast in Times Square, including the Curiosity rover landing on Mars, which drew thousands of viewers, and the launches of two other spacecraft.

posted 01-01-2014 01:51 AM               

NASA Sends Out of This World New Year's Greeting in Times Square

A New Year's video greeting from Expedition 36 flight engineer Karen Nyberg, who returned from the International Space Station (ISS) in November, and from three of the astronauts currently on the station: NASA's Rick Mastracchio and Mike Hopkins, and Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.