Making Space Cool!!
Even though he attends college in the shadow of the Kennedy Space Center, Adam Humphries can’t name any of the astronauts who just returned home on space shuttle Discovery.
And he has no idea why they paid a visit to the International Space Station.
“It’s not something that everybody is really into,” said Humphries, 18, a student at Brevard Community College, less than 10 miles from the space center. “It’s not interesting anymore. There’s nothing new that everybody can catch onto.”
NASA’s imagemakers are taking a hard look at how to win over media-saturated teens and 20-somethings growing up on YouTube and Google. Read more
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