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Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives

Accession 20-189

National Air and Space Museum

Website Records, 2019-2020

Repository:Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu.
Creator:National Air and Space Museum
Title:Website Records
Dates:2019-2020
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Collection:Accession 20-189
Language of Materials:English
Summary:

This accession consists of approximately 473 tweets using the hashtag "#SnapTheSuit." In 2019, the National Air and Space Museum (NASM) distributed 15 statues of Neil Armstrong's spacesuit to baseball stadiums and encouraged the public to post pictures of themselves with the statue using the "#SnapTheSuit" hashtag. The hashtag was also used by the museum and by NASM Director Ellen Stofan (via her personal Twitter account) to promote both the statues and the original spacesuit on display at NASM. Twitter is a microblogging platform and its posts are known as "tweets." Tweets using this hashtag were exported into a spreadsheet between May 30, 2019, and January 10, 2020. Due to technical issues, some tweets may be truncated. The hashtag "#ApolloAtThePark" is also frequently found in this accession. It was primarily used by the ballparks in relation to a larger celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing on the moon. This accession only includes tweets using the "#ApolloAtThePark" hashtag when it appears in the same tweet as "#SnapTheSuit." Materials are in electronic format.

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This accession consists of approximately 473 tweets using the hashtag "#SnapTheSuit." In 2019, the National Air and Space Museum (NASM) distributed 15 statues of Neil Armstrong's spacesuit to baseball stadiums and encouraged the public to post pictures of themselves with the statue using the "#SnapTheSuit" hashtag. The hashtag was also used by the museum and by NASM Director Ellen Stofan (via her personal Twitter account) to promote both the statues and the original spacesuit on display at NASM. Twitter is a microblogging platform and its posts are known as "tweets." Tweets using this hashtag were exported into a spreadsheet between May 30, 2019, and January 10, 2020. Due to technical issues, some tweets may be truncated. The hashtag "#ApolloAtThePark" is also frequently found in this accession. It was primarily used by the ballparks in relation to a larger celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing on the moon. This accession only includes tweets using the "#ApolloAtThePark" hashtag when it appears in the same tweet as "#SnapTheSuit." Materials are in electronic format.

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Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 20-189, National Air and Space Museum, Website Records

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Electronic Records

Tweets using the "#SnapTheSuit" hashtag, exported May 30, 2019-January 10, 2020

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