NASA plans Tweetup for next shuttle launch

14.10.2009

NASA is no stranger to the microblogging site Twitter.

This past May, astronaut Mike Massimino, a Twitter newbie at the time, became . Massimino was part of the seven-member crew of the Space Shuttle Atlantis when it went aloft on an 11-day mission , which is orbiting about 350 miles above Earth.