CLEVELAND
— NASA’s Glenn Research Center (GRC) in Cleveland will host a special
event on March 2 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of John Glenn’s first
orbital flight by an American. NASA also will invite 100 people for a
behind-the-scenes Tweetup at GRC in advance of the celebration event.

The Tweetup activities begin at 7:30 a.m. EST with a tour of Glenn’s
world-class flight research and ground test facilities that support
aeronautics and space exploration. Participants will speak with
scientists and engineers about technologies being investigated and
developed.

Following the tours, the Tweetup will move to downtown
Cleveland for the Glenn tribute event. “Celebrating John Glenn’s Legacy:
50 years of Americans in Orbit,” will be held at 1 p.m. at Cleveland
State University’s Wolstein Center. The program will include a video
tribute and remarks by Glenn and agency and political officials. Tweetup
participants also will meet astronaut Greg “Box” Johnson and other
special guests.

On March 1, 1999, the Lewis Research Center
was officially renamed the NASA John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis
Field in recognition of Glenn’s contributions to science, space and the
State of Ohio. As one of the original seven Mercury astronauts, Glenn
trained in 1960 at Lewis in the Multiple Axis Space Test Inertia
Facility.

Today, the center’s research and technology
development work focuses on air-breathing propulsion; communications;
in-space propulsion and cryogenic fluids management; power, energy
storage and conversion; materials and structures for extreme
environments; and physical sciences and biomedical technologies in
space.

Tweetup registration opens at noon on Friday, Feb. 3,
and closes at noon on Monday, Feb. 6. NASA will select 100 total
participants, including Twitter followers and their guests, by lottery
from those who register online. Because Glenn is a government facility
with restricted access, the event is open only to U.S. citizens and
legal permanent residents.

For more NASA Tweetup information and to sign up, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/tweetup

To follow Johnson on Twitter, visit: http://www.twitter.com/Astro_Box

For more information about John Glenn, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/about/bios/john_glenn.html

For more information about NASA’s Glenn Research Center, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/glenn

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