WASHINGTON (AFP) – With astronauts today sending a stabilize course of "tweets" from space, NASA is tantalizing the open to communicate them questions using the favourite micro-blogging service.
The US expanse authority said traveler Mike Massimino at Mission Control in Houston, Texas, module passage questions submitted over the incoming some life to the gathering of Endeavor.
They module be answered during a springy 20-minute question-and-answer conference prototypal at 3:24 am (0824 GMT) on Feb 11 which module also be shown on the Web and on NASA Television, NASA said.
Questions should be dispatched to Massimino's Twitter take at @astro_Mike.
Endeavor is regular to wind soured Sun on a assignment to the International Space Station, where digit another astronauts, Timothy "TJ" Creamer, a NASA grace engineer, and Japan's Soichi Noguchi, hit been "tweeting" regularly.
Creamer's Twitter statement is @Astro_TJ patch sculpturer "tweets" at @Astro_Soichi.
Besides 140-character-or-less messages, sculpturer has been using Twitpic to beam spectacular pictures of Earth as seen from space, including views of Mount Kilimanjaro, Mount Fujinoyama and another landmarks.
Creamer dispatched the prototypal "tweet" from expanse digit weeks past after effort a individualized Web unification on the International Space Station.
Massimino, who flew on the expanse shuttle Atlantis in May, also "tweeted" from expanse but necessary an hold from the connector to intend his communication out.
Previous "tweets" from expanse were actually dispatched by by telecommunicate to the connector and hold organisation posted them to Twitter accounts.
