New SPACE.com Site Launches New Mission: Connect Nation to the Galaxy

NEW YORK, Jan. 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Cue the space music (some say aliens like Bach, but we think Chuck Berry).The new SPACE.com site offers an immersive visual experience that's more like an all-expense-paid vacation to a theme park than a slog to the library. There's a revolution taking place in the space programs of planet Earth.  Space is once again the new frontier and SPACE.com is new, too, presenting eye-popping images, white-knuckle videos and the nation's leading space news since the site's launch in 1999.

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Having successfully completed its core mission – to become the authoritative voice and online home for news, photos, videos and discussion about space exploration and the world around us – SPACE.com introduces humankind to its all-new site with visual, navigation, social and community enhancements.  What was referential is now experiential:  Visitors will enjoy a big-porthole view of the most exciting place in the universe – space itself.

Wherever users wish to go – and whatever they want to navigate – the site's finely tuned new engine will transport them "fast, smooth and weightless." A deep conversation with one of the new space private entrepreneurs, and, when do you get to go into space yourself?  A guided tour beyond the event horizon of a super-massive black hole. A keen analysis of the mind of an extraterrestrial. SPACE.com is there.

Fly with SPACE.com and it will fly with you. SPACE community members can rendezvous and dock on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Yahoo!, Google, AOL, Orkut, Digg, MySpace, PING and more.

The new SPACE.com design is set against a starry background filled with celestial objects and includes more than two dozen explanatory info-graphics, new image galleries with more than 6,000 photos and desktop wallpaper with high-def images, navigation enhancements including subject-specific landing pages, more than 800 videos, and interactive content – all suitable for the home enthusiast, classroom, or boardroom.

Profitable and growing, SPACE.com is leveraging its success with content monetization by investing in a new platform to create a better experience for consumers. SPACE.com continues its partnerships with NASA and others to deliver the highest quality space and space related content and has added staff in design, editorial, production and advertising to continue the growth momentum.  

"We've invested in and upgraded our platform from the bottom up, resulting in an exciting change for consumers who will come to know us for more than our leading news content on space," said Jerry Ropelato, CEO of SPACE.com and its parent company, TechMediaNetwork.

In December of 2010 the site attracted more than 5 million visitors and additional followers through its newsletters, forums and social media. SPACE.com articles are also regularly featured on the web sites of media partners Yahoo!, MSNBC.com, FoxNews.com and Christian Science Monitor.

About SPACE.com

Launched in 1999, SPACE.com has become the world's go-to source for online news of space exploration, sky-watching, commercial spaceflight, life beyond planet Earth, space adventure travel, astrophysics, breakthrough technologies and related reference knowledge, image and video.  Its growing team of experienced reporters, editors, graphic artists and video producers explore the newest discoveries, deepest cosmic mysteries, most exciting missions, coolest technology trends and most profound futuristic ideas in – and surrounding – outer space. A TechMediaNetwork owned and operated brand, SPACE.com attracts millions of space-curious visitors each month who enjoy more than 19 million page views. [source: Dec/2010 internal] TechMediaNetwork is currently #3 in the technology news category (comScore).  Follow SPACE.com on Facebook and on Twitter @spacedotcom.

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