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NASA's fans on Twitter are invited to participate at the launching of the space shuttle Altantis next month at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.

The sign-up for the NASA "Tweetup" will open on Friday. NASA announced that the first 100 people who signup at www.nasa.gov/tweetup will win invitation to participate at the space shuttle launch.

100 lucky winners will spend 2 days in Florida Space Center and they will have opportunity to chat with technicians and astronauts and to watch the launch of the space shuttle Atlantis.

"The goal of this particular Tweetup is to share the excitement of a shuttle launch with a new audience," said Michael Cabbage, director of the News Services division at NASA Headquarters.

You can follow NASA on Twitter: http://twitter.com/nasa