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Space and Astronautics News provides full coverage of all Space Shuttle missions and Soyuz launches; daily coverage of International Space Station Expeditions; updates of current manned and robotic NASA and ESA missions; Project Constellation: NASA’s new Ares, Orion and Altair spacecraft and new missions to the ISS, the Moon, Mars and beyond; headlines in astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology, planetary science and astrobiology; the Universe and how it works. The Weather and Oceanographic News section covers weather news, hurricanes and tropical storms, severe weather alerts, international and local weather forecasts, the Earth-oceans-space connection, climate change, plus earthquakes and volcanoes.

Mission

The primary mission of Space and Astronautics News is the advancement of knowledge of, and interest in, space science – and especially manned spaceflight. The Editor, an alumnus of University College London and other English universities, is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and a member of, among others, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the American Geophysical Union, the American Institute of Physics, the Institute of Physics, the British Geophysical Association and the British Association of Journalists.

The Editor is also involved with helping other companies with their social networking sites (and conventional websites), by optimising their accounts and creating graphics for them, while also working on content for their postings, and increasing their public visibility by promoting them and acquiring large numbers of quality followers. The primary Space and Astronautics News Twitter account was created on October 2, 2008, by January 2009 was the 40th most followed account on Twitter, and is currently listed in the Top 100 most influential people on Twitter *.

Some statistics

Space and Astronautics News has been no.1 on Google for “astronautics news” continuously since 2005, and has a high international profile. Alexa ranks Space and Astronautics News in the top ~1 % of the entire Internet. It is also within the top half of a percent of all sites on Technorati. (Data correct @ June 15, 2009) Its content is syndicated in various ways around the world – you may have seen it on Reuters, USA Today, Houston Chronicle, Chicago Sun Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, NY Times, Fox News or many other places.

In the government Twitter directory GovTwit, Space and Astronautics News is ranked No.16 out of all listed and No.4 in Media.* (*Data correct @ June 24, 2009). To his amusement, the Editor has also found that Space and Astronautics News is currently (June 24, 2009) ranked more influential than Oprah, Ellen, Al Gore, Ev Williams (Twitter CEO), Felicia Day and others *.

The Editor

The Editor shares a birthday with Apollo 13 Flight Director Eugene “Gene” F. Kranz, the man who never said “Failure is not an option”, but wishes he had. The Editor is single, slightly younger than President Obama, though currently less slim, and would like to settle down. He likes quiet home life, but doesn’t want to raise children. (I added this paragraph because some people were curious).

What people on Twitter have said about me.

‘We choose to do these things… not because they are easy, but because they are hard…space is there, and we’re going to climb it, and the Moon and planets are there, and new hopes for knowledge and peace are there. And, therefore, as we set sail we ask God’s blessing on the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which man has ever embarked.’ – President John F. Kennedy, Rice Stadium, September 12, 1962.

“A man touched down on the Moon, a wall came down in Berlin, a world was connected by our own science and imagination. And this year, in this election, she touched her finger to a screen, and cast her vote, because after 106 years in America, through the best of times and the darkest of hours, she knows how America can change. Yes we can.” Barack Obama, Chicago, November 5, 2008.

 * source: Twitalyzer, June 24, 2009

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