THE 14TH ANNUAL SHORTY AWARDS

The Shorty Awards honor the best of social media and digital. View this season's finalists!

Special Project

Special Project
From the 6th Annual Shorty Awards

NASA Goddard

Winner in Government

About NASA Goddard

Goddard scientists stare into the sun, grind up meteorites for signs of life's building blocks, look "back in time" into outer space, and untangle Earth's mysteries. Goddard engineers construct sensitive instruments, build telescopes that peer into deep space, and design test chambers that ensure those satellites' survival. Everything Goddard does is for science and mankind. That is why our data is freely available to everyone in the world. Goddard is proud to be one of NASA's centers and humbled by the task it's been given. As a large government institution that's all about science and technology, our goal is to endlessly remind everyone that we're human. Our content may be out of this world, but we strive to be easily within reach on social media. We engage by answering people's questions, liking their Facebook posts, retweeting their Tweets, favoriting their Instagram posts. We host conversations on Skype, YouTube and Google+. Our content is unique, but our excitement to share that content is what makes our social media sing. We get blown away by scientific images of things like supernovas and solar flares, so we post those images to Instagram, We're in awe of our scientist's discoveries, so we share them on Twitter. We're thrilled by the engineers' new technologies, so we post them to Facebook. Our mission, and we choose to accept it, is to share our excitement of our scientists' and engineers' achievements in 140 characters or less.

NASA Goddard's best work on social

https://www.facebook.com/NASA.GSFC/posts/10152262660274910?stream_ref=10 http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/6760135001/ http://instagram.com/p/jzRbUhN_Ia/ https://plus.google.com/+NASAGoddard/posts/Wzj3zM4FR8X https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIKmSQqp8wY http://youtu.be/7QVOE5Oe2X0