If watching the launch of space shuttle Atlantis left you wanting more, there's somewhere else you can go to follow the mission to service the Hubble telescope -- Twitter.
NASA astronaut Mike Massimino launched into space alongside our very own Greg Johnson, a graduate of the University of Washington and West Seattle High. Massimino has more than 212,000 followers on the popular micro-blogging site, and told them last month he'd keep them posted -- even from space.
"Next stop: Earth Orbit!!" Massimino -- a.k.a. Astro_Mike -- wrote in his latest tweet, posted about 9:20 EST this morning.
As for the first extraterrestrial tweet, it's been two and a half hours since launch, and followers are still waiting.
"We're going to be really busy so I'm not sure how much we'll do this from orbit," Massimino told reporters at an April news conference. "I'll try to do it when I have free time in between missions. I can't make any promises, but I'm going to try."
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