Astronauts participating in the Inaugural Parade include Commander Chris Ferguson, Pilot Eric Boe, mission specialists Donald Pettit, Steve Bowen, Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper, Shane Kimbrough and Greg Chamitoff who flew on space shuttle Endeavour in November 2008 on the STS-126 mission. Astronaut Mike Gernhardt will drive the rover and Astronaut Rex Walheim,wearing a spacesuit, will ride with him. NASA will video the parade from a camera mounted on the lunar rover and the lunar rover team will provide live updates to the NASA News Twitter feed throughout the event.
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Karen, do you have a link for the NASA news feed twitter?
No, it was not in the Press release and I know nothing about Twitter. If you are on it try searching on NASA. If it isn’t easy to find, they should have put in the link.
The link for NASA on Twitter is easy!
http://www.Twitter.com/NASA