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Our first view of Mission Control Center, this room is where the shuttle missions are directed. They're running a simulation here.
Photo by NASA of the fully stacked OV 104 on her way to the launch pad 39A. My desktop background since November 5th, 10 days before #NASATweetup 2009
This room looked a bit more advanced than the shuttle mission control, but I'm sure that's just because it's newer.
My addition to the poster being gifted to NASA/JPL Tweetup staff in appreciation from the group. I forgot to close a parenthesis. Oops.
Space Shuttle Discovery sits on Launch Pad 39A the night before her final launch. Taken just after Rotating Service Structure (RSS) retraction.
@therealdjflux, @SpaceKate, and @natronics with Al Worden - backup command module pilot for Apollo 12 and command module pilot for Apollo 15.
If you ever get the chance to go to a NASA tweetup, do it. Even besides the amazing access and the people we got to meet, we were also laden with swag. Handouts, sure, but also a mission pin, mission patch, mission sticker, mission info book, mission info CD, a picture of the STS-129 crew, plus more pics and infopacks and an Ares mission pin and stickers and a chunk of insulation that's been on a flight and a "Celebrate Apollo" DVD with 4 hours of footage and features from 40 years of spaceflight. I mean, geez. Added to the bus tour we received, which went closer than the paid tour goes, we received well over $100 worth of loot.
Images from NASA Tweetup for STS-129 Atlantis Shuttle Launch.