HOUSTON (AP) -- "Shuttle astronauts spotted three more pieces of debris floating in space outside Atlantis early Wednesday, but officials said it didn't seem their appearance would prevent a landing attempt on Thursday.
The objects were sighted during stepped-up inspections a day after the discovery of two other mysterious objects forced a postponement of the planned Wednesday landing."
A billion dollars to send the ground shuttle aloft. Something it's obviously not designed to do. A billion bucks to send solar panels to the Space Station so that the Space Station might investigate such pressing scientific concerns as how anthills are constructed in zero gravity.
There is not one experiment being conducted aboard Lost in Space II that cannot or is not being done elsewhere. On Terra Firma. For a lot less than the pricetag of sending the limping ground shuttle on yet another publicity mission. Ah what the hell. We've got the thing for another 3 years or so, before we take a step back to the Apollo program, so use that whacky robotic arm that never seems to work and zip around tossing satellites into orbit at only 100 times the cost of launching them the old fashioned way.
It's the American way.
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