NASA TV Show NASA 360 Garners Emmy and Other Awards

June 10, 2009

Stephanie Schierholz
Headquarters, Washington
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Kathy Barnstorff
Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va.
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Audrey Staples
National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, Va.
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NASA TV SHOW NASA 360 GARNERS EMMY AND OTHER AWARDS

HAMPTON, Va. -- NASA TV show "NASA 360" has won an Emmy, one of the
best-known awards in regional television. This is the fifth honor in
recent months for the half-hour television program that explores
NASA's contributions to everyday life.

"We're thrilled NASA 360 has won recognition within the video
communications industry," said Michael Finneran, NASA 360 executive
producer at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. "Its
visual content and fast-paced feel are designed to appeal to a wide
variety of audiences."

NASA developed the program in partnership with the National Institute
of Aerospace, or NIA, also in Hampton. It is written, produced and
edited by Mike Bibbo and Kevin Krigsvold of NIA.

"Kevin and Mike are masters at finding exciting topics for NASA 360
episodes and telling engaging stories through their editing," said
Robert Lindberg, NIA president and executive director. "This latest
honor is certainly well-deserved."

NASA 360 won its Emmy for non-news program editing from the National
Capital Chesapeake Bay Chapter of the National Academy of Television
Arts and Sciences, which includes 29 media outlets in Washington,
Virginia and Maryland. It was up against entries from Maryland Public
Television and Colonial Williamsburg Productions.

The team won the editing Emmy for a segment about an all-electric
racecar, the Wrightspeed X-1. NASA 360 had additional help in
shooting that story from Langley videographer Gary Banziger. The
segment aired in the show's second episode.

Johnny Alonso and Jennifer Pulley host NASA 360. Alonso has performed
in movies and on television, including in "Dawson's Creek" and "One
Tree Hill." Pulley has appeared in "NASA Connect" and in television
commercials.

NASA 360's other honors in the last year include Videographer,
Telly,Communicator and EMPixx awards. The team won a Videographer
government/instructional "award of excellence" from the Association
of Marketing and Communication Professionals and a Communicator
"award of distinction" from the International Academy of the Visual
Arts.

In addition, NASA 360 picked up a special 30th anniversary gold Telly
award given for outstanding local, regional, and cable TV commercials
and programs, film and video productions, and web commercials, videos
and films. It also received an EMPixx "platinum," a new honor awarded
by the American Pixel Academy to celebrate excellence in moving
pixels.

NASA 360 is part of the NASA eClips project that provides free NASA
educational video content for the Internet. It airs on NASA TV and
can be seen online at NASA's Web site, on YouTube, MySpace and
Facebook. Viewers also can subscribe to the video podcast through
iTunes. NASA 360 also can be seen on 450 public broadcasting, cable
and commercial stations across the country.

To find NASA 360, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/nasa360

To access the NASA eClips videos, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/education/nasaeclips

For additional information about NASA, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov

For additional information about the National Institute of Aerospace,
visit:

http://www.nianet.org

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