Official, Interactive U.S. Human Space Flight (Augustine) Panel Site Launches June 6, 2009
Posted by Nick Azer in : Augustine Panel, NASA, U.S. Human Space Flight Committee, Vision for Space Exploration , trackback
NASA has launched an interesting official site for the Norm Augustine-led Constellation review panel, called the U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee.
The site is notable for an array of savvy, unexpected interactive features:
- Submit comments or suggestions to the committee;
- A “Submit a question, get an answer” feature with a public voting system for question priority. So far, two “Top” questions have been answered (Update: significantly more answered questions can be found here), with others duking it out in the voting below to join them;
- An official Twitter feed (@NASA_HSF);
- Open public discussion of selected panel topics;
- An official Flickr gallery (where the image above of Dr. Leroy Chiao is from)’;
- A blog-esque news updates page;
- An RSS feed; and
- A method of emailing documents to the committee (email link).
The site also has other handy information, like detailed bios of each of the panel members.
It’s wonderful to have such a level of interaction available with this panel—we can all become a part of the process :) And I was excited by just Dr. Chiao’s open call for comments; this is a whole another level of participation compared to that. So check it out, jump into the topics discussions, and get voting on the good questions ;)
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