NASA recently launched a new “internet and social media special” that’s compiled of heaps of activities, research opportunities and media for people of many ages to binge while they’re stuck indoors to help slow the spread of COVID-19.
It’s been weeks in-the-making, but the space agency on Monday formally introduced the new repository—NASA at Home—and outlined all the goods it encompasses.
“Kind of our overarching goal for NASA when we talk about what we do is to ‘go where people are,’ and right now people are at home,” NASA Spokesperson Allard Beutel told Nextgov Monday. “So we want to make it as easy as possible for people to get information there.”
Beutel explained that the resource compilation that led to the eventual launch of the fully-loaded NASA at Home web special came together organically over the last several weeks, as people across the nation were beginning to shelter in place. “NASA is not a very huge organization in terms of the federal budget,” Beutel noted. “But we're lucky to have a lot of materials, a lot of very cool and unique things, just by the nature of what we do—our discoveries and research and exploration. So we started pulling that together in different groups and we started to coordinate that.”
There’s now mandatory telework across the agency except for mission-critical work, such as people who are physically building the next Mars rover that’s getting ready for a launch this summer. But Beutel said NASA officials from its Office of STEM Engagement, Science Mission Directorate and beyond began compiling resources for kids and adults to access from home wee ..
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