Atlantis Shuttle: NASA Invites Twitterers To Launch, Prepares Shuttle (PHOTOS)

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA is inviting its Twitter followers to the next space shuttle launch.

The shuttle Atlantis was moved to the launch pad Wednesday for its planned liftoff on Nov. 12. The shuttle will deliver more goods to the International Space Station.

For the first time ever, NASA is holding a liftoff Tweetup. The first 100 NASA Twitter followers who sign up will get a tour of Kennedy Space Center and a front-row seat for Atlantis' launch. Registration opens Friday.

NASA has had Tweetups before, but never for a shuttle launch.

NASA says it wants to share the excitement of a shuttle launch with a new audience. Astronauts have been filing Twitter updates since spring, from both Earth and orbit.

See pictures of the Atlantis Shuttle being moved to the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center below.

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[ThinkingDifferently]

Has NASA or any governmental entity explored the propulsion systems of UFOs? It is clear that if police in Belgium and SW Illinois and pilots have seen football field sized craft that emit little noise but a lot of electromagnetic radiation that it would be the propulsion NASA should be using to propel space craft, not the massive noise and thrust of a rocket engine.