Event Will Give Twitterverse An Insiders View Of The Shuttle Mission

For the first time, NASA Twitter followers can personally go inside the heart of a space shuttle mission at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston. NASA is hosting a unique Tweetup on Wednesday, February 17 during Endeavour's STS-130 mission to the International Space Station. Endeavour is targeted to launch on Sunday, February 7.

"We're excited to be hosting NASA's sixth Tweetup," said NASA astronaut Mike Massimino, who also is known as @astro_Mike. "This is the home of all of the astronauts and the historic Mission Control Center. It's an outstanding location to provide our Twitter community with an insider's view of human spaceflight. I'll be on one of the two mission control teams working at that time to keep Endeavour and space station operating safely. Hopefully a few of my Twitter followers can participate in this exciting event."

NASA will randomly select 100 individuals on Twitter from a pool of registrants who sign up on the Web. An additional 50 registrants will be added to a wait list.

FMI: www.nasa.gov/tweetup