One of the Langley Media folks was holding my camera as I snapped a picture of Bryan Branly next to some engines for Orbital Science's Taurus II rocket

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

We must have taken a million of these.

This is used to train astronauts on the interiors of the space shuttle.

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The 0-g plane cockpit was pretty cool. Also pretty old.

From NASATweetup Day 1

The #nasatweetup tent

Space Shuttle Discovery on pad 39A the day before her final launch. Thanks to #NASATweetUp I was lucky enough to be there for the RSS retraction on February 23rd, 2011.

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Randy and Rebecca's son Wyatt opening my gift for his upcomng 4th birthday. Rebecca's friend Eric and his wife from NJ looking on.

Piers Sellers, deputy director, Sciences and Exploration Directorate, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (@NASAGoddard)

The interior of the VAB is immense, humbling, and beautiful.

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

The big countdown clock has clear numerals! You can actually see some of the electronics inside. It looks old

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