NASA Tweetup for STS 135 Last Launch of Shuttle Atlantis | Joanne Manaster

You don't need new glasses! It's sort of fun how the thumbnail selection caught a transition!
Joanne Manaster, @sciencegoddess on twitter, and creator of the website, Joanne Loves Science, shares her excitement on being chosen for the historic last shuttle launch targeted to take place July 8, 2011.

NASA will bring together 150 Twitter followers to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a two-day Tweetup, July 7 - 8, 2011, for the final launch of Atlantis before the space shuttle program is retired. Joanne has been selected as one of 150 @NASA Twitter followers to attend and Tweet the event. Atlantis is targeted to launch on July 8 at around 11:40 a.m. EDT on mission STS-135 to the International Space Station.

As a NASA Tweetup attendee, Joanne and the other 149 Twitterers will interact with NASA shuttle technicians, engineers, astronauts, managers and NASA's social media team as well as tour Kennedy Space Center and view the shuttle launch from the media area. Attendees were selected through a lottery system in which more than 5,500 @NASA Twitter followers applied.

Joanne is a biology lecturer at the University of Illinois and an ardent science outreach enthusiast via her video blog, Joanne Loves Science (http://www.joannelovesscience.com ), She encourages the next generation to enjoy science via her bioengineering camp to young ladies through GAMES (Girls Adventures in Math and Engineering Sciences at the U of I), via advising the iGEM synthetic biology team at the U of I, and also through her Kids Read Science /Teens Read Science contests which asks youngsters to read books about science for prizes. Follow her Tweets at http://twitter.com/sciencegoddess

NASA Tweetup attendees are traveling from across the U.S. and globe to attend this historic event. A list of registered Twitter attendees can be found on the NASA Tweetup Twitter account: http://twitter.com/NASATweetup/sts-135-launch/members

Information about the NASA Tweetup can be viewed on http://www.nasa.gov/connect/tweetup/index.html

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• space
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[NoWattz]

Congratulations on your selection! A launch isn't something you just see. You FEEL it too!! The forces at work are almost unimaginable! I hope you have a very memorable experience. :)

[joannelovesscience]

@NoWattz That's what everyone says! I am really looking forward to it!

[chupamiubre]

Awww lucky! 

[joannelovesscience]

@chupamiubre I feel so incredibly fortunate! :)

[morzMOV]

sorry missed this when i was building Atlantis.

[robertk131]

my twit followers...hahahaha

[nicenoughphil]

STS-135 Atlantis was my first shuttle to see Launch, and now my last I'm glad I made it in time to see part of mans acheivement in action as it was overwhelming in words !, #KSC also has left me speechless has I've toured the buildings back and fourth . . well done @NASATweetup you have done great ! . . I've only just started to follow you on twitter :-) . .

God Bless Atlantis during it's mission

from @philarch1

[kaykane]

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[breejustine]

Congratulations! I was able to make it to the STS-134 launch last month with my dad. It was amazing :) You're going to have a blast! (lol no pun intended)

[jeriellsworth]

Congrats!

[sk7ca]

Ohh! sounds like fun! Congratulations!! :)

[zarkoff45]

I didn't even know there was such a thing as a NASA tweet-up.

[U3X6785]

Looking great as always :)