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

Taken with picplz.

The NASA TV audience reads along with us while Ball Aerospace's Scott Asbury describes building and testing the satellite bus.

I was a #NASATweetup participant! We were 3 miles from the launch pad to watch Discovery lift-off on February 24, 2011!

Thank you #NASA and #NASATweetup!

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Jane Houston Jones stands with me and her mini-Jane in front of a 1:2 scale model of Cassini.

Write up can be found here: www.stuartgleave.com/blog/?p=376

@DBirdy at her Mac; @Astro_Mike and @Astro_Wheels with Elmo in the background.

Some tweeps took the opportunity to sit in the smart people seats.

@nickcicero, @siggy_sf and @pankaj

Wow. The whole thing is incredible.

From the bus

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The red things are thrust vanes that help steer the rocket (on a Mercury Redstone)/

In the middle of the VAB looking up 525 feet.