04.21.11
NASA Tweetup Schedule
Yesterday I received an email with more details on the NASA Tweetup, including the schedule, which made me even more excited!! 🙂
Thursday, April 28/L-1: Tweetup Day 1*
7:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. – Registration at the Kennedy Space Center Press Accreditation Badging Building; travel to the press site, set up, meet fellow participants
10:00 a.m. – Welcome by @NASA team members Stephanie Schierholz and John Yembrick
10:07 a.m. – Meet the tweeps
10:45 a.m. – Demo of Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) and Mark III spacesuits
11:00 a.m. – Lunch break
12:00 p.m.-1:40 p.m. — NASA TV starts for the formal #NASATweetup program, featuring:
· Dana M. Hutcherson, space shuttle Endeavour’s flow director, Kennedy Space Center
· Tara Ruttley, International Space Station associate program scientist, NASA’s Johnson Space Center, @ISS_research
· Astronaut Clay Anderson, @Astro_Clay, Expedition 15 flight engineer, STS-131 mission specialist, shuttle Discovery (April 5-20, 2010)
1:45 p.m. – Board tour buses
2:00 p.m. – Tour of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, including visits to the Apollo Saturn V Center, a drive by the Shuttle Landing Facility, Mate-Demate Device, Orbiter Processing Facility, Vehicle Assembly Building and Mobile Launcher Platforms, and viewing of the retraction of the Rotating Service Structure, scheduled for 7 p.m.
8:15 p.m. – Return to the press site
Friday, April 29/ Launch: Tweetup Day 2
8:00 a.m. – Badges will get you in Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 press site
9:00 a.m. – Group picture beside the countdown clock
9:05 a.m. – Astronaut Ricky Arnold, STS-119 Discovery (March 15-28, 2009)
9:30 a.m. – Astronaut Leland Melvin, associate administrator for Education, NASA Headquarters, @Astro_Flow
10:00 a.m. – Daire McCabe, designer at LEGO
10:30 a.m. – Lt. Col. Patrick Barrett, 45th Weather Squadron, U.S. Air Force
~11:57 a.m. – Astronauts depart their crew quarters for Launch Pad 39A
~12:10 p.m. – Tweetup participants (assembled along the road across from the Launch Control Center) wave to the crew as they drive by in the astrovan on their way to the launch pad
~2:15 p.m. – STS-134 Closeout Crew member (Endeavour’s hatch is closed and latched for launch at ~1:42 p.m. EDT)
3:47 p.m. – Launch of space shuttle Endeavour on the STS-134 mission
~5:00 p.m. – Post-launch news conference on NASA TV
Following the launch, you are free to depart on your own schedule. If you leave immediately, be prepared to sit in traffic for quite some time.
*Program speakers and times are subject to change
(In the event of a 24-hour delay, we will invite you back for a launch opportunity on April 30; the timeline would move about 30 minutes earlier)
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A number of celebrities have announced that they will be there to view the launch as well, including actors LeVar Burton, Seth Green, and Clare Grant (all of whom will be attending the Tweetup) and Representative Giffords and President Obama and family (viewing from nearby).
Let’s hope for good weather!