On Thursday Elmo will join selected NASA twitter followers that will be a part of a question and answer session will include astronauts. The 150 NASAS twitter followers from several states and also include countries from around the globe.

The final launch will take place on Friday at 11:26 am from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Over the years Sesame Street has included astronauts in its educational programming. In the video below you can see an astronaut as part of a countdown that teaches young viewers how to count backward from ten.

Although this is the last shuttle launch, this is not the last time for space exploration.

For more information about space shuttle Atlantis’ STS-135 mission, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/shuttle

One tweet from SesameStreet said :The @bronxzooscobra is visiting places around New York City. Can anyone tell it how to get to Sesame Street? 10:12 AM Mar 30th via web

BronxZooCobra replied with the following tweet: Checking Google maps. RT @sesamestreet The @bronxzooscobra is visiting places around NYC. Can anyone tell it how to get to Sesame Street?

 It seems as though the trip to Sesame Street will have to wait.   News is that the cobra has been found and is now in quarantine.  If we get more tweets from the cobra is in question.   It will be hard to tell if the cobra will be able to use his iPhone while in quarantine. 

Source: NBCNews.com

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Taylor Morgan is excited to play his hometown of Knoxville in the Jan. 1-3 Sesame Street Live stage production of “Elmo’s Green Thumb.” But friends from his Farragut High School theater days won’t recognize the 26-year-old.

The son of Dennis and Shirley Morgan portrays Bert, the quirky, fretful “Sesame Street” character and pop culture icon, in the show at the Knoxville Civic Coliseum. In the role the actor/dancer/singer wears a “full body” character costume complete with the big Bert head, orange puppet hands and big saddle oxfords.

This is probally not the first time a Sesame Street Live actor has been able to perform in front of his or her hometown but it is still exciting.

Source: The Knoxville News-Sentinel

She mentioned that she had observed him while he was watching Sesame Street and was just delighted to see that he had already began recognizing many of the letters and their sounds on his own by just watching the program. Afterwards, she began more purposeful in teaching reading and he was able to learn to read as a preschooler.

Sesame Street used in conjunction with learning at home is a wonderful tool. It makes learning fun and thus makes parents realize that children can learn when it fun: that is probably the best type of learning for kids or anyone else.

Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization behind Sesame Street, is producing, in association with David Letterman’s production company Worldwide Pants Incorporated and Lookalike Productions, a new PBS primetime special, Coming Home: Military Families Cope With Change, featuring Queen Latifah, John Mayer and Elmo. This half-hour HD special tells stories of service members who return home with injuries, visible and invisible, and explores the heroic struggles their families face in discovering a new way of finding a “new normal.” It salutes the extraordinary courage and strength of these military families and offers the general public a powerful glimpse into what they often must endure. The special will air on PBS on April 1, 2009 at 8PM (check local listings) in conjunction with April as the “Month of the Military Child.”

“The Sesame Street Experience
for Military Families brings the Talk, Listen, Connect DVD and materials to life, and it reaches out directly to the families who face the challenges of military life each day,” said Gary E. Knell, President and CEO, Sesame Workshop. ”Our partnership with the USO further extends this initiative. We’re visiting installations across the nation to help these families bond through emotionally difficult times, by providing an educational and entertaining show and outreach activities they can share.”

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