Colbert Salutes NASA, Space Shuttle Discovery

[Soylent Brice]

As the NASA shuttle Discovery prepared to blast off into space Monday night, comedian Stephen Colbert delivered a message saluting -- and slightly satirizing -- the country's space agency.

Although foul weather delayed the shuttle launch from this morning to Wednesday morning, when it departs Kennedy Space Center, Fla., for the International Space Station, Discovery will carry seven astronauts and thousands of pounds of equipment, including a treadmill bearing the name of the late-night comedian.

When NASA launched an online contest earlier this year to name a new node of the space station, Colbert rallied fans of his Comedy Central show, "The Colbert Report," to write in his name. Although Colbert won the most votes in the contest, NASA chose the name Tranquility instead, in a nod to where Apollo 11 landed on the moon, the Sea of Tranquility.

more: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Space/story?id=8402058

[HopeHoops]

1. I think Colbert would have had a lot more fun if they had named a toilet after him.

A treadmill is kind of boring.

[Soylent Brice]

2. i can see it now:

Colbert Crapper

tonight's:





lol

[HopeHoops]

3. That's PERFECT!

:rofl:
:hurts: