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Astronaut Using Twitter While Preparing for Shuttle Mission

by Peter Mychalcewycz on April 8, 2009 at 02:19 PM

Twitter is rapidly approaching the final frontier.

In the months leading up to NASA's final shuttle mission to service the Hubble Telescope, astronaut Mike Massimino is using Twitter to keep his readers up-to-date on his training (and his everyday life). Massimino, a mission specialist and spacewalker, will be along for the ride on the space shuttle Atlantis during the STS-125 mission. The space flight, which is scheduled to last 11 days, will consist of five spacewalks and is intended to restore and upgrade the Hubble. It is hoped that said maintenance will expand the Hubble's capabilities and keep it running through 2014.

Atlantis is set to launch May 12th, so, until then, stay current with Massimino here. Unfortunately, after that, you're on your own; as ubiquitous as Twitter may be, we doubt Massimino will get sufficient cell service to tweet from space. [From: Textually.org]

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Tags: astronaut, hubble, microblogging, nasa, space, twitter

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