CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - "The crew of Discovery woke up Wednesday for a day devoted to an in-flight inspection of the space shuttle, a day after NASA managers celebrated the success of the nation's first Fourth of July manned launch.
The seven astronauts awoke to a recording of "Lift Every Voice and Sing," sometimes referred to as the black national anthem, which was chosen by astronaut Stephanie Wilson, only the second black woman in space."
The shuttle exists to supply the space station. The space station exists to have a place for the shuttle to go. Yes, yes, I know the entire space effort was super-frigged during the black-hole of the Clinton presidency, but he's been away having his heart attacks for some time now and no one has produced a viable mission plan for our return to space. This is puzzling because of the military applications so it leads me to believe that a lot is going on under wraps, and when an old friend who works for NSA asks ME if I'VE heard anything then you know it's DEEP under wraps.
Every launch is nothing more than a publicity stunt because we could fork over a tenth of the cash to have the Russkies drop off supplies to the white elephant in orbit, but after reading the full frontal glee that attended yesterday's take-off, it's worth every penny of it to take our collective minds away from what to do with the barbarians at the gate.
Mexicans, Iranians, Koreans, and Pelosians take up a dreadfrul amount of our time and it was fun to see some real fireworks. Just imagine living in North Korea where all they can do is make believe they've a bit of modern technology.
Notice how I didn't make ANY mention of "the black national anthem"? And don't for a moment believe I'd be so crass as to ask how they managed to get fried chicken meals in those little toothpaste dispensers.
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