Photography and Public Affairs – NASA

NASA Event Photography Disclaimer

Photographers/videographers could also be current at NASA occasions. NASA reserves the proper to make use of any {photograph}/video taken at any NASA occasion with out the specific written permission of these included throughout the {photograph}/video. NASA could use the {photograph}/video in publications or different media materials produced, used, or contracted by NASA, together with however not restricted to: emails, brochures, invites, books, newspapers, magazines, tv, web sites, social media, and many others. 

If you’re attending a NASA occasion and don’t want to have your picture used for publication, you need to make your needs recognized to the photographer/videographer and the occasion organizers. You should additionally contact the  NASA LOC at ARC-LOC@nasa.gov to offer a written notification of your want to not have your picture used for publication, and you need to embrace {a photograph}. NASA will use the photograph for identification functions and can maintain it in confidence. 

By taking part in a NASA occasion or by failing to inform NASA, in writing, of your need to not have your {photograph}/video utilized by NASA, you’re agreeing to launch, defend, maintain innocent and indemnify  NASA from any and all claims involving the usage of your image or likeness. 

Thank you to your understanding and cooperation. 

Public Information Coordination and Concurrence

(a) General. All NASA workers concerned in getting ready and issuing NASA public data are liable for correct coordination amongst Headquarters, Center, and Mission Directorate places of work to incorporate assessment and clearance by applicable officers previous to issuance. Such coordination will likely be achieved by procedures developed and revealed by the NASA Assistant Administrator for Public Affairs. 

(b) Coordination. To guarantee well timed launch of public data, Headquarters and Center public affairs officers are required to coordinate to acquire assessment and clearance by applicable officers, hold one another knowledgeable of modifications, delays, or cancellation of releases, and supply advance notification of the particular launch. 

(c) All public data shall be coordinated by the suitable Headquarters places of work, together with assessment by the suitable Mission Directorate Associate Administrator and mission help workplace head, or their designees, to make sure scientific, technical, and programmatic accuracy, and assessment by the Assistant Administrator of Public Affairs or his/her designee to make sure that public data merchandise are effectively written and applicable for the meant viewers. 

(d) Centers could, nevertheless, with out the complete coordination of Headquarters, problem public data that’s institutional in nature, of native curiosity, or has been deemed to not be a Headquarters launch. (The Assistant Administrator for Public Affairs or his/her designee will decide which public data will likely be issued nationwide by NASA Headquarters.) These releases should be coordinated by the suitable Center places of work and accredited by the Center Director and Center Public Affairs Director. The Center Public Affairs Director is required to offer correct notification to the NASA Office of Public Affairs, Headquarters, previous to launch. (The Assistant Administrator for Public Affairs shall publish pointers for the discharge of public data that could be issued by Centers with out clearance from Headquarters’ places of work.) 

(e) Dispute Resolution. Any dispute arising from a choice to proceed or not proceed with the issuance of a information launch or different sort of public data will likely be addressed and resolved by the Assistant Administrator for Public Affairs with the suitable Mission Directorate Associate Administrator, mission help workplace head, Center Director, and others, equivalent to Center Public Affairs Directors, as essential. However, the suitable Mission Directorate Associate Administrator shall be the arbiter of disputes concerning the accuracy or characterization of programmatic, technical, or scientific data. Additional appeals could also be made to the Chief of Strategic Communications and to the Office of the Administrator. When requested by a Center Public Affairs Director, an evidence of the decision will likely be offered in writing to all Agency events. 

Interviews

(a) Only spokespersons designated by the Assistant Administrator for Public Affairs, or his/her designee, are licensed to talk for the Agency in an official capability relating to NASA coverage, programmatic, and finances points. 

(b) In response to media interview requests, NASA will supply articulate and educated spokespersons who can greatest serve the wants of the media and the American public. However, journalists could have entry to the NASA officers they search to interview, offered these NASA officers comply with be interviewed. 

(c) NASA workers could communicate to the media and the general public about their work. When doing so, workers shall notify their speedy supervisor and coordinate with their public affairs workplace prematurely of interviews at any time when potential, or instantly thereafter, and are inspired, to the utmost extent practicable, to have a public affairs officer current throughout interviews. If public affairs officers are current, their position will likely be to attest to the content material of the interview, help the interviewee, and supply post-interview observe up with the media as essential. 

(d) NASA, as an Agency, doesn’t take a place on any scientific conclusions. That is the position of the broad scientific neighborhood and the character of the scientific course of. NASA scientists could draw conclusions and will, according to this coverage, talk these conclusions to the media. However, NASA workers who current private views outdoors their official space of experience or accountability should clarify that they’re presenting their particular person views – not the views of the Agency – and ask that they be sourced as such. 

(e) Appropriated funds could solely be used to help Agency missions and targets according to legislative or presidential route. Government funds shall not be used for media interviews or different communication actions that transcend the scope of Agency duties and/or an worker’s official space of experience or accountability. 

(f) Media interviews will likely be “on-the-record” and attributable to the individual making the remarks, except licensed to do in any other case by the Assistant Administrator for Public Affairs or Center Public Affairs Director, or their designees. Any NASA worker offering materials to the press will determine himself/herself because the supply. 

(g) Audio recordings could also be made by NASA with consent of the interviewee. 

(h) NASA workers usually are not required to talk to the media. 

(i) Public data volunteered by a NASA official is not going to be thought-about unique to anyone media supply and will likely be made accessible to different sources, if requested. 

Preventing launch of labeled data to the media

(a) Release of labeled data in any type (e.g., paperwork, by interviews, audio/visible, and many others.) to the information media is prohibited. The disclosure of labeled data to unauthorized people could also be trigger for prosecution and/or disciplinary motion towards the NASA worker concerned. Ignorance of NASA coverage and procedures relating to labeled data doesn’t launch a NASA worker from accountability for stopping any unauthorized launch. See NPR 1600.1, Chapter 5, Section 5.23 for inner NASA steering on administration of labeled data. For additional steering that applies to all companies, see Executive Order 12958, as amended, “Classified National Security Information” and its implementing directive at 32 CFR Parts 2001 and 2004. 

(b) Any try by information media representatives to acquire labeled data will likely be reported by the Headquarters Office of Public Affairs or Installation Public Affairs Office to the Installation Security Office and Office of Security and Program Protection. 

(c) For labeled operations and/or packages managed underneath the auspices of a DD Form 254, “Contract Security Classification Specification,” all inquiries regarding this exercise will likely be responded to by the suitable PAO official designated in Item 12 on the DD Form 254. 

(d) For labeled operations and/or data owned by different Government companies (e.g., DOD, DOE, and many others.), all inquiries will likely be referred to the suitable Agency public affairs officer as established in written agreements. 

Preventing unauthorized launch of delicate however unclassified (SBU) data/materials to the information media

(a) All NASA SBU data requires accountability and approval for launch. Release of SBU data to unauthorized personnel is prohibited. Unauthorized launch of SBU data could lead to prosecution and/or disciplinary motion. Ignorance of NASA coverage and procedures relating to SBU data doesn’t launch a NASA worker from accountability for unauthorized launch. See NPR 1600.1, Chapter 5, Section 5.24 for steering on identification, marking, accountability and launch of NASA SBU data. 

(b) Examples of SBU data embrace: proprietary data of others offered to NASA underneath nondisclosure or confidentiality settlement; supply choice and bid and proposal data; data topic to export management underneath the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) or the Export Administration Regulations (EAR); data topic to the Privacy Act of 1974; predecisional supplies equivalent to nationwide house coverage not but publicly launched; pending reorganization plans or delicate journey itineraries; and knowledge that might represent an indicator of U.S. authorities intentions, capabilities, operations, or actions or in any other case threaten operations safety. 

(c) Upon request for entry to data/materials deemed SBU, coordination should be made with the data/materials proprietor to find out if the data/materials could also be launched. Other organizations that play an element in SBU data identification, accountability and launch (e.g., General Counsel, External Relations, Procurement, and many others.) should be consulted for help and/or concurrence previous to launch. 

(d) Requests for SBU data from different Government companies should be referred to the respective Agency public affairs officer. 

Multimedia supplies

(a) NASA’s multimedia materials, from all sources, will likely be made accessible to the data media, the general public, and to all Agency Centers and contractor installations using up to date supply strategies and rising digital expertise. 

(b) Centers will present the media, the general public, and as essential, NASA Headquarters with: 

• Selected prints and unique or duplicate information of news-oriented imagery and different digital multimedia materials generated inside their respective areas.
• Selected video materials within the highest high quality format sensible, which, within the opinion of the installations, could be applicable to be used as information feed materials or options in pre-produced packages and different shows.
• Audio and/or video information of serious information developments and different occasions of historic or public curiosity.
• Interactive multimedia options that may be included into the Agency’s Internet portal to be used by inner and exterior audiences, together with the media and most of the people.

News releases regarding worldwide actions

(a) Releases of data involving NASA actions, views, packages, or tasks involving one other nation or a world group require prior coordination and approval by the Headquarters places of work of External Relations and Public Affairs. 

(b) NASA Centers and Headquarters places of work will report all visits proposed by representatives of overseas information media to the general public affairs officer for the Office of External Relations for applicable dealing with according to all NASA insurance policies and procedures. 

NASA Agencywide Media Accreditation Policy