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NASA, your first Emmy of 2019 has landed.
The NASA staff behind the house company’s protection of SpaceX’s historic Crew Dragon test flight to the Worldwide Area Station final March nabbed an Emmy for Excellent Interactive Program late Saturday (Sept. 14) through the Artistic Arts Emmys, a part of the 71st Emmy Awards, on the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles. The award acknowledges the outreach by NASA and SpaceX to share the milestone mission with the general public by means of stay video, photographs and social media.
“Simply in: We gained an Emmy in interactive programming for protection of the SpaceX Demo-1 flight, which put us one step nearer to our objective of launching NASA astronauts from American soil,” NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said via Twitter after the win. “Congrats to all concerned and people who assist inform the NASA story each day!”
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Simply in: We gained an #Emmy in interactive programming for protection of the @SpaceX Demo-1 flight, which put us one step nearer to our objective of launching @NASA_Astronauts from American soil. 🚀 Congrats to all concerned and people who assist inform the @NASA story each day! pic.twitter.com/3vGu2WvxfRSeptember 15, 2019
Dan Huot, a NASA spokesperson with the Johnson Area Middle in Houston, appeared ecstatic.
“Weeeeeee simply gained an Emmy for DM-1. Due to my NASA and SpaceX household. Unreal,” Huot wrote on Twitter alongside a picture of him holding the award.
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Weeeeeee simply gained an Emmy for DM-1. Due to my NASA and SpaceX household. Unreal. pic.twitter.com/gL0Bp81Wm4September 15, 2019
SpaceX’s Demonstration Mission 1 (also called Demo-1 or DM-1) was an unpiloted six-day check flight of the corporate’s Crew Dragon, a spacecraft designed to fly astronauts to and from the Worldwide Area Station. SpaceX is considered one of two personal firms (Boeing is the opposite) with NASA contracts to fly astronauts to and from the house station on industrial house taxis.
We simply gained an EMMY!!!!!! Our @NASA staff was acknowledged for the unbelievable communications work on the DM-1 NASA @Commercial_Crew launch with @SpaceX. I’m fortunate to work with probably the most gifted folks within the universe #launchAmerica #Emmys2019 pic.twitter.com/G6lbiTwAcHSeptember 15, 2019
SpaceX launched the first Crew Dragon on March 2, with the spacecraft docking itself on the orbiting laboratory a day later. Crew Dragon returned to Earth on March 8 and was retrieved from the Atlantic Ocean. Throughout the Demo-1 mission, NASA and SpaceX streamed stay video of the flight’s launch, docking and reentry, in addition to check operations contained in the Crew Dragon capsule by astronauts on the space station.
“All through NASA’s protection, the company and SpaceX engaged social media customers all over the world and at native social media influencer gatherings at NASA’s Kennedy Area Middle in Florida,” NASA officers said in a statement.
NASA can also be nominated for a second Emmy for the company’s its protection of the InSight Mars landing in November 2018. The company is nominated for an Excellent Authentic Interactive Program for its InSight Mars mission. The nomination is for the entire company’s Perception protection, “together with information, internet, training, tv and social media efforts,” company officers stated within the assertion.
The choice on that award, a technique or one other, is anticipated tonight (Sept. 15) through the second night time of the Artistic Awards Emmys.
NASA officers have stated that an edited model of the ceremonies will air Sept. 21 on the cable channel FXX, and can seem within the full 71st Primetime Emmys broadcast on Sept. 22.
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