They should’ve stuck to the original design lifetime of ten years, but by then the Shuttle had sucked NASA into the black hole.
The saddest part is that NASA missed the opportunity to put a penguin in space to see how it flew in zero-G. Now that great milestone, the big question on everyone’s mind, will fall to the private sector. Perhaps SpaceX will one day release a penguin in a Bigelow habitat, a video which we will all watch endlessly on Youtube, National Geographic, the Discovery Channel, and Animal Planet, especially the launch sequence where the bird is strapped into the couch, pushed back by the launch accelerations and trying to flap his little wings in protest.
Instead we got group shots of astronauts in blue Instant oil-change jumpsuits sharing a bad hair day.
They should’ve stuck to the original design lifetime of ten years, but by then the Shuttle had sucked NASA into the black hole.
The saddest part is that NASA missed the opportunity to put a penguin in space to see how it flew in zero-G. Now that great milestone, the big question on everyone’s mind, will fall to the private sector. Perhaps SpaceX will one day release a penguin in a Bigelow habitat, a video which we will all watch endlessly on Youtube, National Geographic, the Discovery Channel, and Animal Planet, especially the launch sequence where the bird is strapped into the couch, pushed back by the launch accelerations and trying to flap his little wings in protest.
Instead we got group shots of astronauts in blue Instant oil-change jumpsuits sharing a bad hair day.