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1 Comment@GoBoldlyNASA: Go Boldly How can you help the nation 'Go Boldly'??? Forward the site to everyone you've ever known and ask them to... http://bit.ly/wCqVE
@NASAWatch: Dear @GoBoldlyNASA stop drinking the NASA Koolaid and spend some time in the real world where people are losing their jobs.
Government agencies have historically (at least for the last few decades) been bad at advertising themselves to the American public - we all know that NASA is no exception.
This site and twitter feed seem campy and shallow, but maybe with *constructive* criticism they can achieve something that NASA can't: connect with Average Americans and show how the space program benefits us all.
The notion that one should "Discover your reason for space exploration" is a good one - there are a lot of reasons for space exploration, and not everybody agrees with all of them. Plus points for the web site.
Phrases like "great implications for the future of Humanity!" and "NASA Continue to go boldly!" are trite and meaningless. Overuse of the exclamation point leads people to not take you seriously. I know twitter isn't the place for depth and meaning, but at least do more than mindless cheerleading. What were the implications of LCROSS? It's not a bomb, it's an experiment: what was the experiment? What was the goal? Why do we care? Minus points for the twitter feed.
Keep at it! Getting the public excited in space (as we see at http://www.onorbit.com/node/1638) is something that NASA needs and can't do for itself.