The Bird Show

Hi, so Melissa Carter, this is really exciting. You talk about exclusive, and this had nothing to do with The Bird Show or Melissa Carter, news director on the Bert show. This was... Total geek Melissa. Totally different. Well, and it was a NASA tweet-up for the launch of the Space Show Atlantis yesterday, and a tweet-up, I mean, it's, of course, based in Twitter, so you have to be a Twitter member. But Burst Big Adventure kind of turned into a tweet up this past year, because it's basically where we all, if you followed, we all were at Burts Big Adventure, and we tweeted about our experience. You went to the Birts Big Adventure website, and you saw all of our tweets just kind of scroll up the screen so that you could follow along with what's going on even if you couldn't go. Well, the same with the Atlantis launch. NASA, who doesn't have much of a budget and who understands that the space program is in trouble, you know, because it's always based on new administrations and budget money, so everybody's worried about the recession and budgeting concerns. So NASA's like, you know, we want people to be invested in our space program, and we want young people to be reinvested in the space program. So we're doing this tweet up. Well, I am a geek. I'm a space geek. I love sci-fi and everything space. So I already followed NASA. And they had announced that they were going to do a tweet up. And so I thought there is no way I'm going to get in because the announcement was made that the first hundred people to sign this online registration form at a certain time on a certain day was going to be able to be invited to the Kennedy Space Center and watch the launch. And it's on your own dime. NASA wasn't paying for it. But if you wanted to be a part of it, then sign up. And I thought, should I? Well, I regret if I don't, but I'm not going to get in. Who cares?

I didn't even tell me about it. I didn't tell my other space buddies.

I was just like, you know, let me just do this. Do you have space buddies? I mean, people who earned a space with me, yes, hello. Space buddies. Whatever, I just came. I'm going to have to. Let's let her have her time.

Let me have her golden moment.

You got it.

I'm running on two-hour sleep, whatever.

My friends who are also invested in this kind of thing. her time. Okay, you're right. Let's never have her golden moment. You got it. I'm running on two hours sleep, whatever.

My friends who are also invested in this kind of thing. So anyway, so, and I signed up in a few, you know, it was about a week or so later. I got the email saying that I got in. I could not believe it. So anyway, that's what we were part of. And I didn't think, I didn't think a lot about it because I knew I was going to be excited about it, but I thought to tweet up, it's not going to be, you know, I'm going to get down

there and they'll have a place for us to tweet and that'll be it. But when we got down there, it was almost as if we were VIP. Because for NASA, it was 100 of us from around the world. There were people there from Morocco, from New Zealand, from England, who had, again,

all of us, our own expenses to get there all over the country. And not like in an Epcot way,

like real people from real country. That's right, exactly.

Yeah, exactly. And they knew that collectively, my understanding is there probably was about 150,000 followers of all of us collectively.

So they knew that that would be 150,000 followers that may not care anything about the space shuttle launch or even knew that it was happening, that maybe would be invested in it.

I think it's pretty cool, the people in other countries.

Because are we,

us and Russia are the only ones who go to space, right?

Well, China has a program Iran,

but I mean,

when it comes to launching rockets.

But like space station,

it's us in Russia, right?

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