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50 Social Media Users Can Watch NASA Rocket Launch

NASA and the Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) invited 50 people from social media followers, for two days (29 & 30 April 2012). Lucky people who can attend the Commercial Orbital Transportation demonstration flight Service (COTS) both at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Event held is devoted to social media users who also have accounts in Social NASA (followers). For this event, fans and followers of social networks like Twitter, Facebook and Google are eligible are welcome to register. These participants have a unique experience with SpaceX and NASA are where they have the urge to share with others through their favorite social network.


As reported Redorbit, guests will see the launch, on tour around NASA facilities at Kennedy, spoke with representatives from both organizations (NASA and SpaceX) and look at SpaceX rocket launch pad. In addition, they also can meet with people who have similar interests who are also active in social media, met with members of the social media team SpaceX and NASA.

Of SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is targeted to slide in at 12:22 pm, according to the Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) on April 30, 2012. This will signify the first commercial company to send a spacecraft to the International Space Station.

Online registration opens on 5 April and closed the next day. Provided only one day and 50 participants who have been selected for this opportunity to explore the leading office space. Since the parts of this series of events took place in a special area, so registration is limited to citizens of the United States.

In addition, SpaceX will also launch a spacecraft called Dragon. The launch is to test the plane can go smoothly into the space station. The purpose of this launch is also to prove the operation of the sensor and flight system worked fine until the spacecraft came back to Earth.

Before revealing the news, NASA and SpaceX was brought to the planet Mars trip involving space ships Dragon and Falcon 9 rockets. The existence of a transport plane and the possible convening of advanced rocket space travel to Mars with the claimed costs low, amounting to USD500 thousand.



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