NASA and Foursquare team up for the first extraterrestrial check-in

"...unlocked the NASA Explorer Badge..."<p>And so our space program takes yet another small step towards being replaced by wishful thinking. NASA is scrapping one real exploration program after another, while using precious orbital payloads to study rose fragrances and ant colonies in 0G. If the 470th person in orbit is a "NASA Explorer", then I guess we should just make Neil Armstrong a Deep Space Admiral. Then we can all pretend like we've colonized the galaxy while we play EVE Online.

Fascinating example of PR done right (by Foursquare, NASA and and JESS3). Quite sure this is going to be picked up by pretty much every blog and newspaper.<p>Yup, not everyone has quite the same leverage, but you have to hand it to these guys for pulling this off!

JESS3 advising NASA, I am guessing there was a Foursquare partnership over Facebook Places probably due to timing. If I can speculate for a moment, Places probably didn't exist yet at the planning stages of the partnership as this was probably in the works for a while.<p>If Places was rolled out just a bit earlier, and the right connections were in place, they maybe could have been a bigger consideration by JESS3. I'd say this is a big miss for Facebook.

Check out the extra data they served in the source that went to space: <a href="http://yfrog.com/86ul8p" rel="nofollow">http://yfrog.com/86ul8p</a>

JESS3 also did NASA's Buzz Room (<a href="http://jess3.com/nasa-buzzroom" rel="nofollow">http://jess3.com/nasa-buzzroom</a>)<p><a href="http://buzzroom.nasa.gov" rel="nofollow">http://buzzroom.nasa.gov</a>

My only exposure to foursquare was there was a point in time when some people tweeted where they are with it, most people complained about those tweets and then it all went away. Haven't heard about it since (I see no point in it). Honestly, it sounds like something that will die sooner rather than later.

Awww, shucks. And here I was hoping ET checked in. <i>That</i> would be the first extraterrestrial check-in IMO.