No joke... I was one of the 150 picked (out of over 5200) to attend the two day @NASATweetup launch event for STS-135 Atlantis, the last launch and flight of the Shuttle (and of American manned spaceflight) I am, just a bit, stoked...
details here: http://rantzhoseley.com/blog/
(Since I get to meet the flight crew, I'm going to give them a copy of Warren & Colleen's "ORBITER")