Aerospace lobby hopes to renew NASA with crowd-funded ad campaign

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/03/25/aerospace-lobby-hopes-to-renew-nasa-with-crowd-funded-ad-campaign/



Aerospace lobby hopes to renew NASA with crowd-funded ad campaign
By Eric W. Dolan
Monday, March 25, 2013 19:18 EDT

The aerospace lobby has launched a new crowd-funded advertisement campaign to raise awareness about NASA’s space exploration programs.

Daniel N. Stohr, the director of communications for the Aerospace Industries Association, told Raw Story on Monday that the campaign was aimed at increasing investments in the space program.

“Raising awareness of NASA’s exploration programs we hope will increase willingness to invest in our future both in terms of programs and in terms of STEM [science, technology, engineering, and mathematics] education,” he explained. “The most critical element of building the capability to do great things in space is attracting the best and brightest to work on these programs –- the only way to do that is to invest in vital programs. We want to dispel the myth that NASA exploration programs are over and done.”

The Aerospace Industries Association is using the website IndieGoGo to crowd-fund the ad campaign and hopes to raise $33,000 by May 1. If successful, the organization will buy advertising time for an ad trailer in more than 50 movie theaters in major cities during the premier of the “Star Trek Into Darkness” film.



unhappycamper comment: Gee, I wonder why NASA is not being funded..... Could it be all the money we are spending on the military crowds out everything else?