Actor and Producer Levar Burton tweets with two devices during the STS-134 Tweetup, Thursday, April 28, 2011, at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. About 150 NASA Twitter followers attended the event. Photo Credit: (NASA/Paul E. Alers)

LeVar Burton speaks during the "National Symphony Orchestra Pops, Apollo 11: A 50th Anniversary, One Small Step, One Giant Leap" a program including musical acts, speakers, and images and video related to space, on Saturday, July 20, 2019 at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. NASA and the country are recognizing the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, in which astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin crewed the first mission to land astronauts on the Moon. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Kennedy Space Center Director Jim Kennedy talks to inductees and guests at the Astronaut Hall of Fame Induction ceremony held in Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex’s Apollo_Saturn V Center. At far left is the master of ceremonies, LeVar Burton, who starred in the television series “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” The new inductees are Bruce McCandless, Joe Allen and Gordon Fullerton. Recognized for their individual flight accomplishments and contributions to the success and future success of the U.S. space program, this elite group of inductees is among only 60 astronauts to be honored in the Hall of Fame and the fourth group of Space Shuttle astronauts named.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - LeVar Burton, who starred in the television series “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” talks to guests as master of ceremonies for the Astronaut Hall of Fame Induction ceremony in Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex’s Apollo_Saturn V Center. The new inductees are Bruce McCandless, Joe Allen and Gordon Fullerton. Recognized for their individual flight accomplishments and contributions to the success and future success of the U.S. space program, this elite group of inductees is among only 60 astronauts to be honored in the Hall of Fame and the fourth group of Space Shuttle astronauts named.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - A crowd of 1,000 gather in Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex’s Apollo_Saturn V Center for the Astronaut Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. The event was attended by KSC Director Jim Kennedy and his wife, Bernadette, many previous inductees and invited guests, as well as the media, to honor the newest inductees Bruce McCandless, Joe Allen and Gordon Fullerton. Master of Ceremonies was LeVar Burton, who starred in the television series “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” Recognized for their individual flight accomplishments and contributions to the success and future success of the U.S. space program, this elite group of inductees is among only 60 astronauts to be honored in the Hall of Fame and the fourth group of Space Shuttle astronauts named.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA is hosting a two-day Tweetup for 150 of its Twitter followers of space shuttle Endeavour's STS-134 mission. A Tweetup is an informal meeting of people who use the social messaging medium Twitter. This Tweetup is an opportunity to learn more about NASA, explore Kennedy Space Center and experience a space shuttle launch. Actor_Director LeVar Burton, participating in the Tweetup is interviewed by Kennedy's News Chief Allard Beutel. Endeavour and its crew will deliver the Express Logistics Carrier-3, Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2 (AMS), a high-pressure gas tank and additional spare parts for the Dextre robotic helper to the International Space Station. Launch is scheduled for April 29 at 3:47 p.m. EDT. This will be the final spaceflight for Endeavour. For more information visit, www.nasa.gov_mission_pages_shuttle_shuttlemissions_sts134_index.html. Photo credit: NASA_Jack Pfaller

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Owen Garriott, chairman of the Astronaut Hall of Fame, speaks to guests at the Induction Ceremony of three new additions to the Hall of Fame: Gordon Fullerton, Bruce McCandless and Joe Allen. Seated on stage are current Hall of Famers, from left in the back row, Dick Gordon, Walt Cunningham, Bill Anders, Ed Mitchell, Al Worden, Charles Duke, Jack Lousma, Bill Pogue, Robert Crippen, Dan Brandenstein, Robert “Hoot” Gibson and Stephen Covey. In front, from left, are Master of Ceremonies LeVar Burton, who starred in the television series “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” and Hall of Famers Scott Carpenter and John Young, and at right, Jim Lovell and Fred Haise. The ceremony is being held in the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex’s Apollo_Saturn V Center. Recognized for their individual flight accomplishments and contributions to the success and future success of the U.S. space program, this elite group of inductees is among only 60 astronauts to be honored in the Hall of Fame and the fourth group of Space Shuttle astronauts named.