Houston

STS-130 NASA Tweetup got a message from ISS Expedition 22crew, met an astronaut and king of the flight controllers, watched live comm from Shuttle Mission Control and cruised astronaut training facilities, even seeing new AsCans hard at work!

adllewellyn, pillownaut, spasmunkey & aggieastronaut
in the BlastOff Theatre at Space Center Houston


Meeting so many folks from the Tweep Society, Facebook and Myspace was incredible. I'll be adding pictures and videos to my blog and youtube channel over the next few days and my link is: http://pillownaut.blogspot.com/

I hope other Tweeps will do the same. I'm so grateful for this site for bringing folks together; it gave me information to search out people by name so we can revel in our shared space interests!  Cont'd -->

I'm overjoyed to be attending the STS-130 Tweetup in Houston on February 17th!  Hoping to meet other SpaceTweeps there.

We'll be gathering on the 10th day of the mission, whereby Shuttle Endeavour will have been docked for about a week. At this juncture, astronauts Nicholas Patrick and Robert Behnken will have already conducted two spacewalks to install the new Tranquility node.

If all goes according to the mission plan, we'll be tweeting live from Johnson Space Center around the time they are outfitting the seven-windowed panoramic Cupola. (Cont'd-->)

For the past several years, I've been trying to find ways to motivate myself to write more. My mother was a writer, and always told me, write about what you know. I've also been in the space business, as a technical editor, among other duties, for several years. My biggest issue with writing for space is writer's block; I think it plagues most writers, at one time or another. This is also why my entry below is actually being reposted, because it came to me so naturally at the time.

Along with that, there are plenty of times I've written things, and never had the nerve to publish them. Sometimes it's difficult to find the right time or place to even do so. But lately, it seems like everyone needs some good news, wherever and whenever they find it. A year ago Christmas, we had the chance to post our thoughts online on JSC Features. That day was very special to me, and I do believe in my heart, there are more special ones in front of all of us in the space business.

From JSC Features, December 2008:

Will anyone else be attending the Houston HSF meeting?  If so I'll be there and Tweeting.  If not, watch it online!

@absolutspacegrl