If you recall, we posted a week or so ago about Mike Massimino, an astronaut on the space shuttle Atlantis.  We were reporting on the first tweet sent to Twitter from space. Guess what?  It looks like Massimino wasn’t really tweeting from space on the @Astro_Mike account.  Turns out an employee at NASA was doing [...]

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For the first time ever, an astronaut has tweeted from space. Mike Massimino, a.k.a Astro_Mike, has tweeted while aboard the space shuttle Atlantis.  His status update reads: “From orbit: Launch was awesome!! I am feeling great, working hard, & enjoying the magnificent views, the adventure of a lifetime has begun!” Astro_Mike is one of 7 [...]

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