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First Human Tweets from Space

by Evan Shamoon on May 13, 2009 at 09:45 AM



NASA astronaut Mike Massimino has boldly gone where no Twitterer has gone before: Outer space. On Monday, he became the first human to post to Twitter from beyond the stratosphere. Massimino, serving as mission specialist on the space shuttle Atlantis, will be making spacewalks to upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope. He's had months to prepare for this historic Twitter moment -- so how did he do in conveying the fear/anticipation/excitement/anxiousness of preparing to have his backside blown into the sky by 7 million pounds of violent, fiery thrust?

"I'm going to put my spacesuit on, next stop: Earth Orbit!!" tweeted Massimino before launch. Ouch. But at least his first tweet from space was properly reverent, having just survived one of the most incredible triumphs of human intelligence, right?

Sadly, no. In fact, his post was just as exclamation point-laden as the pre-launch tweet:
"From orbit: Launch was awesome!! I am feeling great, working hard, & enjoying the magnificent views, the adventure of a lifetime has begun!"
Come on Massimino, tell us something of consequence! At least hit us with a 'Futurama' quote, or a Kirk-esque star-date update! We guess we shouldn't be too upset, since you're a scientist and not really a writer after all. Still, they should... have sent... a poet.

You can follow him here, regardless. [From: The Next Web]

Tags: microblogging, space, space shuttle, SpaceShuttle, top, twitter

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