Quote: (10-01-2015 05:00 PM)RoastBeefCurtains4Me Wrote:
Not so much that they coordinated with the studio. More that they are jumping on the bandwagon. NASA is highly focused on creating public interest in their space activities, almost more so than in the activities themselves. My understanding was that the scientists already had published, and this was just pure public relations.
I could be wrong about the details here, but the idea of NASA milking public attention whenever they can is a reality. That's why every one of their facilities has been turned into an amusement park.
Public outreach is ~1% of the NASA budget. Education and public outreach were zeroed out for a while recently. I don't even know what you're talking about with the amusement park thing, please elaborate.