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NASA Wins Two Emmy Awards for Interactive Mission Coverage NASA's efforts to engage a broader audience in exploration
through the use of social media and online features was recognized with two Emmy
Awards for interactive programming this weekend. During ceremonies held Sept. 14-15
at the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
recognized NASA for its coverage of a Mars mission and the agency's first test of
a spacecraft that will help bring crewed launches to the International Space Station
back to U.S. soil.
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine tweeted, "Congrats
to all involved and those who help tell the @NASA story every day!"
Part of the Creative Arts Emmys, the awards went
out as follows:
NASA and SpaceX
On Sept. 14, a team from NASA's Kennedy Space Center
and SpaceX won in the category of Outstanding Interactive Program for multimedia
coverage of Demonstration Mission 1, a test flight of the SpaceX Crew Dragon to
the International Space Station - the first human-rated spacecraft to lift off from
U.S. soil since the end of the Space Shuttle program in 2011.
Demonstration Mission 1 was made possible by NASA's Commercial Crew
Program, which is paving the way for commercial transport of astronauts to the space
station while the agency looks forward to deep space missions to the Moon and Mars.
The nomination was the result of years of preparation for the historic launch and
multiple live broadcasts from NASA and SpaceX facilities across the country during
each phase of the Crew Dragon's mission to the International Space Station and its
stunning return to Earth. Throughout NASA's coverage, the agency and SpaceX engaged
social media users around the world and at local social media influencer gatherings
at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
On the second night, Sept. 15, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in
Pasadena, California, won Outstanding Original Interactive Program for the agency's
coverage - including news, web, education, television and social media efforts -
of its InSight (Interior Exploration using
Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) mission to Mars.
InSight is the first mission to study the deep interior of Mars, using
an ultra-sensitive seismometer, a heat-flow probe and other instruments. InSight
is managed for NASA by JPL, a division of Caltech in Pasadena. JPL won the 2018
Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Interactive Program for its coverage of the
Cassini mission's Grand Finale at Saturn.
An edited version of the two ceremonies will air on FXX Sept. 21. Selected
Creative Arts Emmys will be shown as part of the live 71st Primetime Emmys broadcast
on Sept. 22, which will air on Fox at 5 p.m. PDT (8 p.m. EDT).
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