I love my President! Astronomy Night @ the White House.

[Botany]

Ever since I was a kid, I had my sights set on the stars.

And with a little bit of luck and a lot of hard work, I managed to reach my dream and see those stars up close during my travels into space as a mission specialist with NASA’s Astronaut Corps.

Every kid should get to experience the excitement of seeing the stars a little bit closer.

Which is why today, working as Assistant Director of Space and Aviation Security in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, you can guess that I’m particularly excited that tonight, the President will host the second-ever Astronomy Night, right here on the South Lawn of the White House.

We’ve invited students, educators, engineers, scientists, and visionaries from the space industry here to stargaze with us tonight, using 18 telescopes to observe celestial objects, including the Moon, Neptune, the Andromeda Galaxy, and Albireo (a binary star system).

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Encourage your friends and family to tune into a live-stream of Astronomy Night at 7:30pm ET at whitehouse.gov/live to watch the President’s remarks. You can also share this map of local astronomy nights happening around the country so others can participate remotely as well.

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Alvin Drew

[GoCubsGo]

1. Do you have a link to that?

It's really cool to have a president who is interested in science.

[Botany]

3. It is from an email

P.M. your email address and I'll forward it on to you if you want.

BTW I have a family member who works for NASA and w really wasted a
lot of time and money with his, "Lets build "a fort" on the moon and then we
will build a spacecraft there that can fly to mars and back to the moon idea."

[Cassiopeia]

2. The Orionids are out.

They won't peak until the night/morning of the 21st/22nd, but they are out. Caught 3 this morning.

[redstateblues]

4. An Obama admirer on DU?

a rare occurrence these days.