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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — With 100 Internet- savvy NASA fans cheering on the shuttle and churning out constant Twitter updates, Atlantis sailed smoothly into orbit Monday with six astronauts and a full load of spare parts for the international space station.
The supply run should keep the space station humming for years and the shuttle astronauts in space through Thanksgiving.
Space enthusiasts who won front-row seats to the launch splashed news over countless cellphones and computers in 140 characters or fewer.
“What’s exciting to me is that they’ve captured the spirit and the excitement that we all feel . . . in a very few number of characters,” NASA space- operations chief Bill Gerstenmaier said.
