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Article: Next Station Commander Shares Training, Flight On Twitter and Blog.
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- Defense & Aerospace Week
- Article date:
- September 30, 2009
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NASA astronaut Jeff Williams, who will command the next International Space Station mission, is using Twitter, a blog and short video clips to provide a unique, behind the scenes insight into his training in Russia. Once in orbit, Williams will become the first space station commander to share his experiences using Twitter.
Williams Twitter username is Astro_Jeff. He is in his final month of training at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia. He will be providing a look at his experiences in Star City and at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Williams will launch to the space station aboard a Soyuz spacecraft with Soyuz Commander ...