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January 28, 1986. I was sick, home from school (first grade) sitting on the couch. Mom was flipping channels, looking for her infernal soap operas. Happened to come across the live launch. The loss of Challenger set many things in motion for me. Spaceflight became a passion. An obsession. I used to pore over books about the shuttle like I was chasing a ghost. I wanted to learn everything about the shuttle program. I wanted to know how and why things went so wrong so quickly. I started devoping a huge interest in aviation over the years as a kid. Watching planes fly was just fascinating. I can't explain it, I just knew it was a part of my life. I enlisted in the US Navy as an aircraft maintainer with later plans of becoming an officer in hopes of one day being an astronaut. After seeing some things that I morally or ethically don't necessarily believe in or agree with, I knew being an officer - and ultimately a military astronaut - wasn't going to happen.

I am an ex-Air Force officer and now spend my evenings with my telescope observing and photographing the cosmos. During the day, I am currently a photographer, but spend most of my time home raising my 11-month old baby girl. 

My photographic website, which has both regular and astrophotography is: www.eprisephoto.com

Reporter and anchor for WBBM Newsradio 780 and CBS Radio in Chicago who regularly tweets about space, science and technology stories with a keen interest on the Chicago connections to these areas. My reporting closely follows the astronauts and NASA scientists from the Chicago-area and Illinois.

I never know what to say so I'm Jay and I live and work in Tampa Florida. I'm a huge space fanatic and a big supporter of the shuttle program. (Which means 2010 is just breaking my heart!) 

My goal is to make every launch in 2010 and to spend as much time at the Kennedy Space Center as humanly imaginable! I love science, astronomy, physics, history, philosophy and religion. 

I'm open-minded, extroverted and I love living here in Florida (except for the drivers, hah!). I really enjoy meeting new people and hanging out and having a good time. 

I've been following NASA on twitter since I first got an account and now I follow as many of their feeds as I can get my hands on. 

Hope to see ya'll next launch ;D 

I've always been interested in space exploration. I've paid particularly close attention since STS-107 and got to see STS-131 launch. Our exploration of space defines who we are as people. I'm happy that there are people out there like me who are interested in space!

A member of the STS-132 JSC NASA Tweetup:

http://picasaweb.google.com/absolutspaceguy

 Space Tweeps... love ya all.

 I thought I was alone through the '80's and '90's as a youngster and later a space writer who only meet those interested in space flight in the media corps. at Cape Canaveral or in Huntsville, AL.

I began keeping space shuttle journals when I was about 13 years of age, and kept on writing through my adult years for magazines, newspaper and radio.

I never talk about myself, so I would say that creating a story about myself is more difficult than about how LO2 and LH2 mix together to create the fuels needed... wait, there I go again. I love to write about how things work both on the ground and on orbit in support of the human interest in space flight.

Exploration is key to my central core.

What I'm Wired About

Robotic exploration, big science telescopes, SETI, dark matter/energy, space elevators, Kuiper belt, Oort cloud, exotic propulsion systems, private human LEO transport

A Little About Me

First off, let me make it clear up front so that there is no confusion: this is a project that I'm volunteering for.  I'm not getting paid to do it.  It is on my own time.  Second, it was written about in the news media months ago so this isn't breaking news.

Are we good? Good. So I'm on this project and I was chosen to be a part of the social media team. We're meeting in a couple of weeks, but before that happens we were given an assignment. I figured - it's the social media team, why not use social media as a way to do the assignment?

The assignment was for me to look at my social networking habits - Facebook, Twitter, etc, and look at what got me to the people/organizations/conversations that I participate in most often - what value do they bring to me? What makes them appealing?

I am just a fan of Space, Science, Discovery, NASA, and anything NASA related!

Advertising /Online media industry. F1 fanatic and space program enthusiast. Love running, boxing, traveling, photography and dogs. Also a dessert addict =)

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Last Name: 

Cacho-Sousa

First Name: 

Paloma

Education: 

UM - Bachelor of Arts and Sciences with a minor in Marketing

Occupation: 

Account Services Executive at starMedia

I've been a space enthusiast all my life, but put that energy to good use when I went to work at Space Center Houston 10 years ago.  Today, I'm the Public Relations Specialist at SCH and enjoy every second of my day job.  By night, I become Super Geek Dad and love dazzling my kids with the telescope, science experiments and Space Station / Shuttle sightings.

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Last Name: 

Moore

First Name: 

Jack

Education: 

Applied Design and Visual Arts

Website: 

Moore-Arts.com

Whew!  The JSC Tweetup is over & I've finally had some time to sit down and collect my thoughts. 

It's been a very hectic week, from working STS-130 to the Tweetup to managing to squeeze in a few world domination discussions with @flyingjenny since she was at my house, there wasn't much time to stop and take it all in.

I'm very sorry that I couldn't participate on the tour, but such is life and being a Flight Controller for a few years now I've learned that you really can't plan anything, from vacations to family events to holidays to Tweetups, everything's on hold until wheel stop - and then there's another one!  

For now at least, there's another one.  A few other ones.  Even though I wasn't able to join the actual tour, I was able to attend the events the night before and the night of the Tweetup.  I was very excited to meet everyone who I've been talking to only virtually for almost a year now.  Finally, I get to show you what we do!  

I have been an engineer at NASA (JSC) for twenty years.  I have worked Shuttle (Payload Ops), NASA Mir (continuous rotation to Russia supporting NASA astronaut and payloads on-board Mir for three years), and now write procedures to build and operate the ISS.  Most recently the procedures are mod kits which retro fit the station and its modules for newly desired capabilities. 

 My analytical/geek side often fights to coexist with my artistic side.  An artist all my life, I write lyrics and poetry, create art by recycling old items (crosses, birdhouses, furniture), do graphic design on the side as well and also love construction and building things... big things, like massive decks!  That engineering comes back into play with my construction projects and while building custom cabinets and renovating my kitchen or knocking a hole in the wall under the stairs for a wine cellar... best of both worlds?

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Last Name: 

Freeman

First Name: 

Susan

Education: 

BSME Texas Tech University

Occupation: 

Aerospace/Systems Engineer

Website: 

Space Is Our Future

Are you disappointed about not being one of the select few chosen to attend the SDO Tweetups and will miss all the fun and excitement? Have no fear, Astronomy.FM is here!

Astronomy.FM wishes to invite all Space Tweeps to attend its Virtual SDO Launch Tweetup! The goal is to offer a venue for anyone who wants to participate, but is unable to get to one of the many Regional SDO Launch Tweetup locations. NASA has indicated that, to their knowledge, Astronomy.FM is the "first" to hold a virtual Tweetup; and they have forwarded material to enable an exceptional online experience. Although virtual, our Tweetup will be much like traditional ones and will include:

A little story about a space flying dog that has a story within that is the bigest story in the history of the world...........~

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Last Name: 

Clausen

First Name: 

Andrew

Education: 

Yup

Occupation: 

Self employed

Website: 

Saturday Matinee~

Hi everyone.

I have been a fan of NASA since the late 1960's. I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing (in front of the TV) on Sunday July 20, 1969.

 I currently write a weekly column on technology and will feature NASA in many of them.

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Last Name: 

Mark

First Name: 

Ollig

Education: 

Telecommunications

Occupation: 

Telecommunications programmer Free lance columnist

Website: 

Bits and Bytes

Professional Photographer, Writer and Historian

Shot the launch of STS-129 Nov. 16th, 2009

Author of new Book "A Fire In The Sky" the history of Project Mercury. Due out this Spring from Odyssey Books.

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Last Name: 

Brown

First Name: 

David M.

Education: 

North Western Branch, Miesau, Germany Franklin University, Columbus, OH

Occupation: 

Professional Photographer Writer Historian

 I am totally in awe of the images we are receiving via NASA!

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Last Name: 

Griffiths

First Name: 

Raychell

Education: 

collage

Occupation: 

Personal Support Worker

I work at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland and live in Laurel.  I am a Communication Systems Engineering working as the RF Communications Deputy PDL on the MMS (Magnetosphere MultiScale) mission to launch in 2014.

I also work on an engineering wiki, which aims to capture engineering knowledge and information more effectively among all of our engineers at Goddard.  The work of the following projects has inspired me to do this: Wikipedia, CommercialSpaceWiki (CSWiki), KSC Wiki, and many other attempts at knowledge management within NASA that almost worked.

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Last Name: 

Jon

First Name: 

Verve

Website: 

http://twitter.com/jonverve

Grew up just after the Apollo era. Had the Buzz Aldrin "Visor" picture as a mural on my wall, Viking Lander cutaway diagrams on my desk.

40 year anniversary resparked interest in space. Watching SpaceVidCast's coverage of Ares X-I tapped me into the masses on twitter and the web. Northrup Grumman Lunar Lander X-Prize was a blast. 

Flying out to Kennedy Space Center to watch STS-130 and SDO go up in February.

Look for the seven foot tall geek.

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Last Name: 

Zichterman

First Name: 

Zig

The first person hired on the team founding The Golf Channel, I participated in the planning, launch and growth of that network's success now reaching over 120 million worldwide subscribers.  An avid aviation and space enthusiast all my life, I now pursue a network launch in that category. (Passion, meet profession.)  When we get this thing on air, I hope to get current again on my commercial  instrument rating!

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Last Name: 

Hurst

First Name: 

Phillip

Website: 

http://www.AirandSpace.TV

Growing up in Westport, Connecticut, I was interested in space-related subjects from an early age--science fiction, model rocketry, the press coverage of the Ranger/Gemini/Apollo/Mariner etc. missions. I got my first telescope in 1972. I was most interested in observing planets, comets, asteroids, though I love deep sky as well. In 1975-76 I helped found the Westport Astronomical Society; we converted a defunct Nike missile site into Rolnick Observatory.

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Last Name: 

Tony

First Name: 

Hoffman

Education: 

University of Michigan - BA in Creative Writing/Literature

Occupation: 

PCMag.com - Managing Editor (printers, scanners, and projectors)

Website: 

http://home.earthlink.net/~tonyhoffman/astronomy.htm

Freelance science communicator, writer and broadcaster. Freelance astronomer working for Royal Observatory, Greenwich

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Last Name: 

Stuart

First Name: 

Colin

Website: 

http://colinstuart.net

As a German I can only watch from the outside how engaged some people are about NASA and spaceflight. It's not just some topic that just costs money but a great achievement to get people to space. I wish, I could be able to be as proud of my government as Space fans are about NASA. 

But this is supposed to be a bio. I was fascinated by technical things for quite some time when some years ago I found NASA TV and just happened to watch a Shuttle Launch (No idea which mission it was, but it was after Return To Flight). Since then I try to get as much of the remaining launches as I can. When I found Space-Multimedia (http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.org/) I was totally fascinated about the videos I had never seen like the videos from Ascent and Landing Control in Houston. 

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Last Name: 

Heinrichs

First Name: 

Andre

Website: 

Compyblog

Hunter Whitney is President of Hunter Whitney & Associates, Inc., which offers information architecture, user experience design and content development consulting services for traditional and emerging media. Hunter Whitney & Associates blends incisive analysis with inventive thinking to create effective and engaging ways to express complex ideas across media. Hunter has dual Bachelors' degrees in English (UCLA) and Biology (UCSC) and is a published magazine and newspaper writer, as well as an Information Architect and Interaction Design consultant.

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Last Name: 

Whitney

First Name: 

Hunter

Education: 

Dual bachelor's degrees in Biology (UCSC) and English (UCLA)

Occupation: 

User Experience Designer and Science Writer

Website: 

Hunter Whitney's Primary Site

I love the universe: it's where I live. I am skeptical, but easily awed by wondrous things. I want to learn many points of view so I can evaluate them and learn how others view the universe. I try hard not to make offensive remarks, but I also don't let egregious statements pass unchallenged.

My favorite activity on social networks is interacting with professionals in their fields: it makes me feel more connected to the world of science and technology and exploration. It's nice to know they're just ordinary people like me, but doing extraordinary things with their lives and work.

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Last Name: 

Robertson

First Name: 

Jared

Education: 

Associate of Arts and Sciences; Most of a Bachelor of Science :P

Occupation: 

Current: Cashier, Editor; Previous: Programmer

Website: 

The Daybook of ZorkFox the Laughing Magician

I Live in Las Vegas NV, I'm a student pilot (12/09) with 68 hours and on the verge of my check ride. Which I have been for a couple of months. Time and money have slowed down my progress again.

I Love all things that fly, and am very interested in space... Always have been for as far back as I can remember... Always rockets and frying models.

After PPL, I'm going to go for instrument, and commercial, maybe CFI... No need for ATP. Looking to be able to fly a charter every now and then. 

I recently got involved with a start up aviation pod cast "Mile High Flyers" http://www.milehighflyers.com/

Thanks for reading,

Mike

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Last Name: 

Daniels

First Name: 

Michael

Education: 

Tech School, Some college

Occupation: 

Performance consultant

Hi,

What space related podcasts do you listen to or watch and recommend ?

I listen to:

The Space Tweeps Podcast

I watch:

All the NASA podcasts

At least in my head that's the case.  My fear of heights hinders my actual ability to reach for the stars, but being a space geek has always been in my DNA.  I chose the media route, however, and not the science path.  Being a part of the NASA Tweetup for the Space Shuttle Atlantis helped introduce me to like others out there, including the Space Tweep Society.

I am currently a Co-Host on "The Bert Show," mornings on Q100 Radio in Atlanta.  I have been in morning radio now for 14 years, and throw in a freelance column or blog in when I can.  In my spare time I feed my geek hunger, taking in sci-fi books, movies, tv shows, and articles.

www.melissatimes.com

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Last Name: 

Carter

First Name: 

Melissa

Education: 

B.S., University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Occupation: 

Co-Host, "The Bert Show" on Q100 in Atlanta

Website: 

Melissa Times