Snapshots from NASA Tweetup (on Twitter: #NASATweetup) for Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Launch, Nov. 25 & 26, 2011, Kennedy Space Center, Fla.

@schierholz checks in some tweeps and grants the special NASA Tweetup credentials

Yes, that is me in the cockpit of a NASA F/A-18 at Dryden Flight Research Center. This is a NASA Photo

Launch Pad 34 - Apollo I

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I cannot believe people squeeze into these to fly into space. As our guides kept pointing out, the design is very spartan, very efficient, and very Russian.