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NASA Pushing Social Media Experience To New Heights

NASA launched a social media experience at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida that quickly turned into an unprecedented world-wide event as more than 100 Twitter users got a unique look inside America's space program and front row seats to the Nov 16 liftoff of the space shuttle Atlantis.

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