NASA Tweetup Schedule = EPIC

You should thank me. I really wanted to make a really lame reference between our NASA Tweetup schedule and fireworks...but I refrained. You're welcome.

Here's our schedule, in all its glory. I really don't need to say more, it speaks volumes on its own. Be jealous.

Thursday, July 7/L-1: Tweetup Day 1
6:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. – Registration at the Kennedy Space Center Press Accreditation Badging Building; travel to the press site, set up, meet fellow participants
9:00 a.m. – Welcome by @NASA team member John Yembrick
9:05 a.m. – Meet the tweeps
10:00 a.m. – Break
10:30 a.m. – Bill Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for Space Operations Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters (NASA TV starts http://www.ustream.tv/nasatelevision)
10:50 a.m. – Elmo, Sesame Street (@SesameStreet) interacts with STS-109 and STS-125 Astronaut Mike Massimino (@Astro_Mike)
11:10 a.m. – Massimino answers questions from the participants
11:30 a.m. – Tracy Thumm (@ISS_Research) and Justin Kuglerm (@ISS_NatLab), International Space Station Program, NASA's Johnson Space Center
11:50 a.m. – Angie Brewer, space shuttle Atlantis' flow director, Kennedy Space Center
12:10 p.m. – Conclusion
12:15 p.m. – Lunch break (on your own or a visit to the cafeteria)
12:15 p.m. -- Elsie Wiegel and Trent Perrotto escort tweeps to the cafeteria
12:20 p.m. -- Beth Beck and Sarah DeWitt escort tweeps to the cafeteria
12:25 p.m. -- Jason Townsend and Samone Faulkner escort tweeps to the cafeteria
1:15 p.m. – Board buses for Launch Pad 39A to view the retraction of the Rotating Service Structure at 2 p.m.
3:15 p.m. – Tour of NASA's Kennedy Space Center, including visits to the Apollo Saturn V Center and the Vehicle Assembly Building and a drive by the Launch Control Center, Mobile Launch Platform and Orbiter Processing Facility.
6:00 p.m. – Return to the press site

Friday, July 8/ Launch: Tweetup Day 2
5:00 a.m. – Badges will get you in Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 Press Site; you may enter through gate 2 and gate 3, but we recommend gate 2, an employee gate, to avoid the congestion around the Visitor Complex and gate 3.
6:30 a.m. – Robotic Refueling Mission demonstration
7:00 a.m. – Group picture beside the countdown clock
7:05 a.m. – Astronaut Tony Antonelli, STS-119, STS-132
~7:36 a.m. – STS-135 astronauts depart their crew quarters for Launch Pad 39A
~7:40 a.m. – Tweetup participants (assembled along the road across from the Launch Control Center) wave to the crew as they drive by in the astrovan on their way to the launch pad
8:00 a.m. – Bob Crippen, STS-1, STS-7, STS-41C, STS-41G
8:30 a.m. – Lt. Col. Patrick Barrett, 45th Weather Squadron, U.S. Air Force
~9:21 a.m. – Atlantis' hatch is closed and latched for launch
11:26 a.m. – Launch of space shuttle Atlantis on the STS-135 mission
~12:30 p.m. – Post-launch news conference on NASA TV

...and there it is. Simply...astonishing. I am so blessed and thankful to be a part of history. Happy Independence Day all, hope you're enjoying it with loved ones!