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Hello! I am back into regular, personal blogging after a short hiatus, thanks to NASA 🙂 If you are visiting this blog from NASATweetup, here are my personal recaps of Shuttle Endeavour’s launch journey:
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Hello my dear friends. Apologies for the short hiatus after Endeavour’s shuttle launch, but I am back to resume blogging as usual. Apparently I’m still on cloud nine ever since witnessing the launch. What an awesome experience and the best part about the whole experience is the ability to share it with you all. It’s a long recap with many photos, considered warned about space knowledge post overflow 🙂
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Day 2 at Nasa’s Kennedy Space Center was no short of fun. The experience was just as AMAZING as Day 1.
Below was the planned agenda of the day:
Friday, April 29/ Launch: Tweetup Day 2
9:00 a.m. – Group picture beside the countdown clock
9:05 a.m. – Astronaut Ricky Arnold, STS-119 Discovery (March 15-28, 2009)
9:30 a.m. – Astronaut Leland Melvin, associate administrator for Education, NASA Headquarters, @Astro_Flow
10:00 a.m. – Daire McCabe, designer at LEGO
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…literally. Endeavour’s journey has been postponed till May 10th. Mission STS-134 for April 29th was scrubbed. Launching human into space is no joke. Precautionary steps are put in place to safeguard lives and that is why space enthusiast like myself should expect launch delays. Let’s start from the beginning, shall we?
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Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin – Russian: Ю́рий Алексе́евич Гага́рин, Russian pronunciation: [ˈjurʲɪj ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ ɡɐˈɡarʲɪn]; (who am I kidding?) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human being to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on April 12, 1961.
Source: Wikipedia
If you are a first timer here on our blog, get to know us more. I’ve done some blog post on our previous visits to Kennedy Space Center:
Albeit still in disbelief for being selected as one of Nasa’s 150 TweetUp participants to watch Endeavour’s final shuttle launch into space, I am just as excited as Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor would’ve been, when he was the first Malaysian selected to go into space.
Yesterday’s morning begin with a frantic drive to Kennedy Space Center. Frantic for the obvious reasons – I’ve never driven more than 50 miles away from my home, alone. While I thought blasting music while driving would substantially muster enough courage to brave the dreaded driving, exciting thoughts of finally realizing my dream of seeing a live shuttle launch made me even braver to conquer the journey.
Made it at the Press Site just in the nick of time, and ran into wonderful tweeps that are just as excited as me. Can you tell? 🙂
Of course, had to pleasure of running into (literally!) Seth Green! No introduction needed, but he is an American actor 🙂 First Michael Jordan, now Seth Green? How are the lucky stars in my favor, I can never fathom.
Signing off as official Nasa’s STS-134 TweetUp participant and don’t forget to catch my live shenanigans at Twitter & Facebook.
