June 21, 2002

NASA INTERNET SITES HONORED

Two NASA Internet sites were honored this week with Webby Awards, sponsored by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. The Webby Awards recognize Web sites that are both aesthetically exceptional and which utilize technology to help build communities.

The NASA Home Page, which serves as the Agency's entryway into its more than four million public World Wide Web pages, won the Webby's People's Voice Award in the Government & Law category. The Earth Observatory, an interactive site that highlights news and imagery about NASA's Earth science research, won the People's Voice Award for Science.

The NASA Home Page, managed by the Office of Public Affairs at NASA Headquarters in Washington, is located on the Internet at: http://www.nasa.gov/.

"We're very pleased that Internet users voted NASA these awards," said Glenn Mahone, Assistant Administrator for Public Affairs. "Since 1994, when people around the world were staying up late to see images of Comet Shoemaker-Levy colliding with Jupiter, the Internet has been an important means of fulfilling NASA's mission to inspire the next generation of explorers in ways that only NASA can."

The Earth Observatory, sponsored by the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., and the Office of Earth Science at NASA Headquarters, is online at: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/.

Voters who register through the Webby Awards site select the People's Voice winners. The academy also has panels of judges who select their choice for the top site in each category based on a variety of functional and esthetic criteria.

The two sites are the fourth and fifth NASA sites to be selected for this honor during the past six years.

Previous winners include:

• Mars Pathfinder (http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/MPF/): 1998 People's Voice for Science
• Science@NASA (http://science.nasa.gov/): 1999 People's Voice for Science
• Starchild (http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/): 1998 Webby for Education

The awards were announced June 18 in San Francisco. The full list of winners and nominees can be found on the Internet at:

http://www.webbyawards.com/

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