From Royal Oak to Outer Space: Tweetup @ Cape Canaveral
NASA’s innovative use of social media takes Royal Oak space buff on the trip of a lifetime
Editor’s note: Amy Parrent was a lucky participant in a NASA tweetup at Kennedy Space Center on Aug. 4 and 5. A longtime space buff, with a background in writing and the arts, her imagination has always been fired up by space exploration. Even as a child she cut out newspaper photos of NASA missions and pasted them in scrapbooks. This article is Parrent’s account of the two-day south Florida event. The space shuttles will soon be trucked off to museums but NASA is still alive and kicking. I experienced that first-hand earlier this month on a dream trip to Cape Canaveral, Florida. A NASA tweetup at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) took 150 astro-enthusiasts from all over the world on a behind-the-scenes look at our past, present and future…
