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NASA is expanding its successful program of Tweetups to include more social media platforms, broadening the agency's use of social media to engage audiences about the agency's mission of exploration and discovery. As part of this effort, the "NASA Tweetup" will now be known as "NASA Social."

Expedition 22 Commander Jeff Williams is joined by astronauts T.J. Creamer and Soichi Noguchi on the International Space Station to discuss their "tweeting" from orbit, how using Twitter helps them keep everyone back on Earth informed of station activities, and the advent of internet access to the ISS. Noguchi says he received a "tweet" from the Japanese Prime Minister after speaking with him from orbit!

NASA astronaut Jose Hernandez, set to fly aboard space shuttle Discovery in August, is providing insights about his training on Twitter in both English and Spanish. It will be the agency's first bilingual Twitter.