Getting your player ready...
When Andrew Murray signed up for Twitter in 2008, the Boulder resident never expected he would be live-tweeting the final space shuttle launch for NASA three years later.
Recently, NASA held a lottery to select 150 of its Twitter followers to participate in a two-day Tweetup, an informal meeting of Twitter users, on July 7-8.
Murray and the other 149 Twitter users will attend the launch of Atlantis, marking the last shuttle mission before the program is discontinued, at NASA`s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
“Everyone used to watch the shuttle launches on TV,” Murray said. “Now NASA`s bringing in people who love space and networking to spread the word about it.”
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