The Space Review: Storytelling with space art and artifacts Comments

Thomas Matula

Sun, 3 Jul 2016 05:43:41 +0000

Makes sense as NASA is unlikely to sell a suit that flew to a private organization.

Thomas Matula

Sun, 3 Jul 2016 05:41:55 +0000

Unfortunately NASA’s briefings are still as dry as a police briefing, just as loaded with jargon, and done with the same lack of motivation making it seem like something they are being forced to do, not doing it because they enjoy it. That is one difference between NASA outreach and that involving successful nonprofits and for profits firms. The other is that NASA's outreach is done without listening or learning its audience. Modern organizations spend as much time listening and researching the audience as talking. This enables them to structure the message in a way that more effectively reaches their different audiences.

Bill Higgins

Tue, 28 Jun 2016 17:05:01 +0000

I began wondering what the silver garment in the last photo was, so I went a-googling. I couldn't find any reference to it on the EMP museum's site. I'll guess that it's a David Clark G2C pressure suit used in Gemini training as discussed on this interesting Collectspace page. The subsequent suit types, which actually flew on Gemini missions, were white, not silver.

Bob Mahoney

Tue, 28 Jun 2016 04:24:29 +0000

Sounds like some cool exhibits, Jeff. Thanks for the report (& pictures!). But here I go again, to reinforce Mr. O'Brien's observation...and remember, it was about more than just NASA TV.... http://www.thespacereview.com/article/802/1 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/807/1 To quote the opening of part 2: In the first part of this essay, I investigated how NASA and the space exploration community have nearly killed the public’s interest in spaceflight during the past 30 years by their failure to engage the public through effective storytelling and with an emotional link to the people on the inside actually making spaceflight happen. I've seen some betterment during the past nine years (perhaps some folks doing the talking have actually read up on the basics of how to tell stories?), but the pace of improvement is GLACIAL.

Thomas Matula

Tue, 28 Jun 2016 02:25:40 +0000

Good article. One of the reason classic science fiction had the impact it did was because it consisted of good stories. But good story telling is almost a lost art in this age of sound bites and tweets.