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Welcome Space Tweeps / Space Geeks!

This is a community-owned and community-managed wiki site for NASA and other space-related Socials/Tweetups.* If you are unfamiliar with what a NASA or space tweetup is, the Wikipedia page (separate site) is a great starting place. This wiki's purpose is to help curate the experience of attending a tweetup—the participants, blog posts, images, and video related to such an event. The site's goal is to serve as a centralized resource for the community. It is easy to edit and contribute to this wiki. You can simply log in with your Twitter account (using OAuth)—all Twitter users already have access!

The official twitter account for this site is @TweetupSpace .

* NOTE: this is a community site and is not run or affiliated with NASA or any other space agency. If you have more questions, please contact one of these folks.

Currently Open for Registration

@ATKRocketNews  Rocket Ground Test Tweetup & Tour at ATK's Facility in Utah (May 31-June 1, 2012)

Attendees will get to observe the ground test on the first day of the tweetup and attend tours of ATK's facilities on the second day.

To have an opportunity to attend the tweetup, you should be following @ATKRocketNews  and @ATKOutreach , and send an email to ATK's Trina Patterson at trina.patterson@atk.com containing your Twitter handle, full legal name, and if you are a U.S. citizen. Be sure to let her know you're interested in the tweetup!

What's Next?

@NASASocial  for the Launch of @SpaceX 's Falcon 9 Rocket & Dragon Spacecraft from Cape Canaveral AFS in Florida (May 18-19, 2012) GOING ON NOW!

This is the first attempt by a commercial company to send a spacecraft to the Space Station!

@NASA  and @SpaceX  will host a two-day event for 50 social media followers at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket was originally targeted to lift off at 12:22 p.m. EDT on April 30, on a mission to become the first commercial company in history to attempt to send a spacecraft to the International Space Station. Launch is now targeted for May 19 at 4:55am EDT. [1]

NASA Social participants will have the opportunity to: view a launch of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket; tour NASA facilities at Kennedy Space Center; speak with representatives from both organizations; view and take photographs of the SpaceX launch pad; meet fellow space enthusiasts who are active on social media; meet members of SpaceX and NASA's social media teams. Official Press Release. (Registration closed at noon Friday, April 6.)

Not picked for the NASASocial? Coming to KSC to watch? Join us to plan an #UNOFFICIALtweetup - Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/388567974499639/

@SpaceCampUSA  Aviation Challenge #SCTweetup at U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama (May 18-19, 2012) GOING ON NOW!

This tweetup will select 16 Twitter users who register and are following @SpaceCampUSA  and @check_six . The goal of these events is to connect with other individuals who interact on Twitter that share our interest in math, science, technology, and aviation as well as the education of the next generation.

This action-packed event will include Aviation Challenge activities, Guest Speakers in the space and aviation fields, behind the scenes tours, fly in our high performance jet simulators and experience water survival techniques in our lake facilities. (Registration closed Monday, April 23 at 5pm Central.)

Upcoming Tweetups

@ESA 's #AndreTweetup featuring André Kuipers ( @Astro_Andre ) aboard the ISS - Held at ESTEC in Noordwijk, Netherlands (29 May 2012)

Are you following @Astro_Andre’s Twitter updates and images from space? If you could speak to him live on the International Space Station, what would you most like to ask? Now’s your chance! (Registration closed 14 April at 12:00 CET.)

The European Space Agency (ESA) is inviting 80 followers of @Astro_Andre  to join us for a SpaceTweetup, with André participating live from the International Space Station. The Tweetup will take place in English. (Official Press Release, including registration link)

@SpaceCenterHou  #Shuttlebration Weekend & Tweetup in Houston, Texas (June 1 & 3, 2012)

“Shuttlebration Weekend” begins on the afternoon of Friday, June 1, when the Space Shuttle attraction will arrive by barge at the Johnson Space Center (JSC) NASA Road 1 dock on Clear Lake near the Nassau Bay Hilton hotel. This will be the largest item to arrive at the dock since the Saturn V arrived for display in 1977.

The public is invited to a free street party between the dock and the hotel to witness and celebrate the historic arrival. The street party will include exhibits and static displays of new technologies and space vehicles that are being developed for the future of exploration, as well as local marching bands, food and entertainment.

On Saturday, June 2, the Space Shuttle attraction will be loaded onto a mobile transfer vehicle for transport to Space Center Houston. The lakeside load-out will take a full day to complete. No public events are planned.

Early in the morning on Sunday, June 3, the attraction will make a three-hour trek down NASA Parkway from the Hilton to its permanent home at Space Center Houston. It will receive a futuristic VIP escort from JSC’s prototype planetary rovers for future solar system exploration. Upon the Space Shuttle attraction’s arrival, Space Center Houston, along with the Johnson Space Center, will host a free public celebration in its parking lot from 9 a.m. to noon. The family-oriented event will include more opportunities to see the Shuttle attraction up close, and to get a look at the latest ongoing developments in space exploration taking place at JSC.

@NASAJPL  Public Open House #JPLOpen in Pasadena, California (June 9 & 10, 2012)

@NASAJPL  invites the public to its annual Open House both days from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event, themed "Great Journeys," will take visitors on a "ride" through the wonders of space. Highlights include a life-size model of Mars Science Laboratory, the NASA/JPL spacecraft currently bound for Mars; demonstrations from numerous space missions; JPL's machine shop, where robotic spacecraft parts are built; and the Microdevices Lab, where engineers and scientists use tiny technology to revolutionize space exploration.

JPL Open House appeals to kids and adults, with plenty of hands-on activities and opportunities to talk with scientists and engineers. For the first time ever, JPL invites cell phone users with text message capabilities to take part in a mobile scavenger hunt. Participants in "The Voyage" scavenger hunt can search for secret capsules hidden across JPL and unlock secret codes.

There is no registration/sign-up -- everyone can attend.

@Raytheon  #meetRay Tweetup at the Farnborough International Airshow in Hampshire, England (July 13, 2012)

The Tweetup will provide 50 of @Raytheon ’s social media followers with exclusive access to the Farnborough International Airshow via Raytheon’s hub at Farnborough. The Farnborough International Airshow is a global event that brings together companies from the aerospace, defense, space and security sectors to showcase and demonstrate aircraft, equipment and technologies. It is one of the largest, most diverse gatherings of the international aviation community in the world.

Participants in the Raytheon Tweetup at Farnborough will have the opportunity to watch the flying displays from a private balcony with unobstructed views at the Raytheon chalet. Participants also will watch student rocketeers from France, the United Kingdom and the United States participate in the fifth annual Transatlantic Rocketry Challenge.

The Raytheon Tweetup at Farnborough will take place on Futures Day, designed to demonstrate how science, technology, engineering and mathematics subjects have a direct impact on the real world now and in the future, through the exciting – and often loud! – atmosphere of the number one global aerospace event.

  • Information & FAQ including information such as -- you can bring a guest as young as 11 years of age if selected to attend.
  • Registration for the tweetup will open noon EDT May 22 and close noon May 25.
    REGISTRATION OPENS IN:

#AuroraTweetup in Northern Finland (7-10 February 2013)

Tweetup under the Northern Lights. Check out the tweetup's website and register now for a unique opportunity to spend 4 days under the Northern Lights, 250 km north of the Arctic Circle. A maximum of 20 participants will be selected. (Registration is now closed.)

Rumor Mill: Possible Future Tweetups/Meetups

What Just Happened?

First @NASASocial  at @NASADryden  Located on Edwards Air Force Base in California (May 4, 2012)

@NASA  will host about 75 social media followers to go behind-the-scenes and learn more about NASA aeronautics projects at the agency's Dryden Flight Research Center. Official hashtag: #DrydenSocial

The event will kick off at 7:30 a.m. PDT and include tours and presentations on current aircraft and aeronautical research. Social media guests will receive an introduction to some of the laboratories and support services necessary for successful aeronautical and science projects. Highlights of the day-long event will include: a brief overview and history of the Dryden Flight Research Center; an opportunity to see historic aircraft such as the LLRV, M2F1, X1-E, F104, F-8 Supercritical Wing, F-8 Digital Fly-by-Wire and the SR-71 Blackbird; a unique occasion to see and learn about current aeronautic and science projects; meet NASA pilots that fly high performance, unmanned, and support aircraft; participate in a discussion of sonic booms, the causes of sonic booms and the potential to experience one; a fun-filled day to interact with people who share a passion for NASA! DrydenSocial Official Press Release. (Registration closed at noon Pacific, Wednesday, April 11.)

@LockheedMartin  F-22 Final Delivery #LMTweetup (May 1-2, 2012)

On May 2, @LockheedMartin  will deliver the final F-22 Raptor to the United States Air Force, marking completion of the first-ever fleet of 5th Generation fighter jets. Join us as we celebrate this momentous occasion in aviation history with a special #LMTweetup that examines the evolution of fighter jets from first to fifth generation and culminates in the Final F-22 Delivery Ceremony. (Registration is now closed.)

@OEWF 's inaugural #MarsTweetup in Austria (28 April 2012)

The Austria Space Forum ( @OEWF  is inviting 20 Twitter followers to its first tweetup at the Dachstein Mars simulation in Austria. The Tweetup is for Twitter followers who are interested in space and analog simulations or who are following the oewf channel on Twitter (@oewf). The goal is to give #MarsTweetup participants a unique opportunity to experience live a real space mission simulation, get the chance to look behind the scenes of a Mars analog field test and meet other Twitter users who are sharing the same interest. (Registration closed 8 March 2012 at 12:00 p.m CET.)

The Tweetup will be held in English and German. Tweets are welcome in any language.

@LockheedMartin  #SciFest #LMTweetup in Washington, D.C. (April 27, 2012)

Are you following @LockheedMartin  and ready to fly the F-22 simulator and the see the @NASA_Orion  capsule simulator? Then sign up for an opportunity to be one of up to 30 Twitter followers selected to attend this 2012 USA Science and Engineering Festival “Sneak Peek” Tweetup. Tweetup Information. (Registration closed Friday, April 13 at 5pm Eastern.)

#OV101toNYC #SpotTheShuttle Tweetup in Hoboken, New Jersey (April 27, 2012)

Help welcome Space Shuttle Enterprise (OV-101) to New York City where she will be displayed at the Intrepid Museum for visitors from around the world to appreciate. This is a SpaceTweeps-organized tweetup to #SpotTheShuttle. Tweeps will be gathering at Pier A Park in Hoboken with great Hudson River views.

@NASASocial  to Welcome Discovery to @AirandSpace 's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia (April 19, 2012)

The first NASA Social, where fans and followers from multiple social networks including Twitter, Facebook and Google + are invited to participate. The @Smithsonian 's National Air and Space Museum and @NASA  will host 30 of their social media followers at the museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.

Space Shuttle Discovery, attached to its Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, is expected to land at Washington-Dulles International Airport on April 17 and will be officially transferred by NASA into the Smithsonian’s collection in an outdoor ceremony open to the public on April 19. The April 19 event will begin with Discovery’s arrival from adjacent Dulles Airport, onto the tow road behind the Center.

NASA Social participants will have the opportunity to: tour the Udvar-Hazy Center and explore the amazing collection of aviation and space objects on display; speak with museum curators, NASA scientists and engineers; view and take photographs of space shuttles Enterprise and Discovery together for the first time in history; meet fellow space enthusiasts who are active on social media; meet members of the Smithsonian and NASA's social media teams. (Registration closed at noon Eastern, March 16.)

@ISU_Tweet  #ISUTweetup at the International Space University in Strasbourg, France (12-13 April 2012)

The International Space University in Strasbourg, France is inviting 20 Twitter followers to a Tweetup celebrating the 25th anniversary of ISU, Yuri’s Night, and the International Space Station and Mars Conference. The tweet up is open to anyone who follows @ISUnet  or @ISU_Tweet . This Tweetup will showcase the International Space University, its alumni, and partners. The main event will take place Thursday 12 April, with optional activities on Friday 13 April.

@LockheedMartin  F-16 #LMTweetUp in Fort Worth, Texas (April 3, 2012)

Celebrating the fighter jet tradition with a ceremony for the 4500th F-16 Fighting Falcon (Registration closed at 5 p.m. EST on Thursday, March 15.)


Past Tweetups


Levar Burton, a guest of 134 Tweetup
Credit:NASA/Paul E. Alers

Resources for Tweeps

NASATweetup / NASASocial Alumni Groups

...on Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+ to help NASATweetup alumni connect and communicate.

Space Tweep Society @spacetweeps  A group of space enthusiasts (#SpaceTweeps) on Twitter from a variety of backgrounds. Our ranks include NASA and other space program employees, astronomers, journalists, astrophysicists, scientists, educators, and space geeks. Our mission is to promote enthusiasm for all things space and to unite those inside the space industry with those who are outside looking in. There's even a Book Club you can join! :)

SpaceUp @spaceupconf  A space unconference, where participants decide the topics, schedule, and structure of the event. Unconferences have been held about technology, science, transit, and even cupcakes, but this is the first one focused on space exploration. So far, SpaceUp events have been held Washington, D.C., Houston, San Diego, and Los Angeles.

Yuri's Night @yurisnight  An annual worldwide party to celebrate Yuri Gagarin's first flight into space--as well as to promote space exploration.

#endlessBBQ @endlessbbq  A recurring Space Tweep gathering centered around rocket launches and other space awesomeness.

Spacevidcast @spacevidcast  A weekly, live web broadcast show all about space and exploration. Its typically Thursday nights at 10PM EST/7PM CST, but starting August 2011 for at least 2 months, the show will be taking a hiatus. Outside of their weekly live show, the main site broadcasts NASA HD TV live.

Commercial Space @cswiki  Exists to share information about #newspace - the commercial space market.

SpaceTweetup Wiki @spacetweetup  A wiki for European Space Tweetups (ESA/DLR tweetup at EAC, ESA tweetup at ESTEC, SpaceKoelsch 1 and 2)

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Seth Green at 134 Tweetup
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