NASA, which has tiptoed into the new world of social media with Twittering astronauts and Facebooking rovers, is taking the next step with an invitation to “the twedia” to cover a space shuttle launch. There are so many details to work out that the so-called TweetUp, originally planned for next week's launch of space shuttle Endeavour, has been rescheduled for the August flight of shuttle Discovery, said Michael Cabbage, a spokesman for the U.S. space agency. NASA figures it can handle about 150 media Twitterers in a makeshift media site at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Media members at the launch will be able to issue reports to Twitter users who have signed up to receive them. The tweets also are archived on the Twitter.com website.
