
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the support personnel for NASA's STS-132 Tweetup introduce themselves to the participants. NASA is hosting 150 people from around the world and providing them with a behind-the-scenes perspective to share with their followers via the social networking service Twitter. Attendees were randomly selected from more than 1,000 online registrations and include people from more than 30 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Netherlands, New Zealand and England. The Tweeters are being given the chance to meet with shuttle technicians, managers, engineers and astronauts, to take a tour of Kennedy, and to experience the exhilaration of the launch of space shuttle Atlantis' STS-132 mission. A tent was set up especially for the occasion near the countdown clock at Kennedy's Press Site. Atlantis' liftoff is set for 2:20 p.m. EDT on May 14. STS-132 is the 34th mission to the station and the last scheduled flight for Atlantis. For more information on the STS-132 mission objectives, payload and crew, visit http:__www.nasa.gov_mission_pages_shuttle_shuttlemissions_sts132_index.html. Photo Credit: NASA_Amanda Diller
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