Oct 26, 2010

Stephanie Schierholz Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100 stephanie schierholz@nasa gov

Amiko Kauderer Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 amiko kauderer-1@nasa gov

RELEASE: 10-281

NASA HOSTS TWEETUP DURING UPCOMING SPACE SHUTTLE MISSION

HOUSTON -- NASA will give 50 Twitter followers the opportunity to go inside the heart of a space shuttle mission during a Tweetup Tuesday, Nov 9, at the agency's Johnson Space Center Space shuttle Discovery is scheduled to launch on an 11-day mission to the International Space Station on Nov 1 at 4:40 p m EDT

Tweetup participants will tour the center; view mission control and astronauts' training facilities; and speak with managers, flight directors, trainers and astronauts The participants also will meet the team behind the tweets on @NASA and @NASA_Johnson

"The Tweetup attendees will get to visit the home of mission control during one of the last two scheduled shuttle flights," said Stephanie Schierholz, social media manager at NASA Headquarters in Washington "In addition, they will get to share their experience of the excitement of human spaceflight with their followers around the world "

Registration opens at 10 a m EDT on Tuesday, Oct 26, and closes at 10 a m on Thursday, Oct 28 NASA will select participants randomly from those who register online For more information about the Tweetup and to sign up, visit:

http://www nasa gov/tweetup

Astronaut Nicole Stott, one of the crew members on Discovery's mission to the space station, will be posting tweets about the mission To follow her on Twitter, visit:

http://www twitter com/Astro_Nicole

In addition to this mission Tweetup, NASA has invited 150 Twitter followers to a two-day event Oct 31 and Nov 1 for the launch of shuttle Discovery To follow the participants as they experience the launch at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, visit:

http://twitter com/nasatweetup/sts-133-launch

Find all the ways you can connect and collaborate with NASA at:

http://www nasa gov/connect

For more information about space shuttle Discovery's STS-133 mission, visit:

http://www nasa gov/shuttle

For more information about the space station, visit:

http://www nasa gov/station

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