jackwilson (True Core Lover): In May 2009, astronaut Mike Massimino used Twitter to send updates during the Hubble Space Telescope repair mission (STS-125), the first time Twitter was used by an astronaut in space.[144][145] The STS-125 mission marked another NASA/Twitter first--a post-mission tweetup held July 21, 2009, *
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jackwilson (True Core Lover): at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C., attended by about 200 members of the general public. The crew of STS-125 was on hand for answer questions.[146] *
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jackwilson (True Core Lover): On October 21, 2009, Nicole Stott and her Expedition 21 crewmate, Jeff Williams, participated in the first tweetup from the International Space Station with about 35 members of the public at NASA headquarters[147] This involved the first live Twitter connection for the astronauts[148]. Previously, *
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jackwilson (True Core Lover): astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle 0r ISS have sent the messages they desire to share as tweets to Mission Control which then posted the messages via the Internet to Twitter.[149] *
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jackwilson (True Core Lover): In November 2009, the launch of STS-129 marked NASA's fifth tweetup, and its first such event ever held during a Shuttle launch at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.[150] One hundred members of the general public, representing Morocco, New Zealand and 21 U.S. states, in addition to the District of Columbia, attended the unprecedented two-day event and, for a time, the #nasatweetup hashtag reached #3 on Twitter's trending topics.[151] *
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