NASA's Atlantis Ready For June 8 Launch 52
lifuchi writes "The guys and girls at NASA are at it again with Atlantis. The newly repaired space shuttle is set launch on June 8. The hail-damaged fuel tank has been repaired and is said to be a bit of an eyesore. Zee News is quoted as saying, 'Instead of being a uniform orange, it has a patchwork of white spots where technicians sprayed, scraped and filled fresh foam into the more than 4200 areas that were damaged during a freak hailstorm in February.'"
So a can of orange paint was out of the budget (Score:4, Funny)
Re:So a can of orange paint was out of the budget (Score:2, Funny)
Orange! (Score:5, Funny)
Oh no! Stop the engines, damn it, and don't even think of thinking of going anywhere with that non-uniform orange fuel tank! We don't want to be embarassed in front of the perfectly uniform green aliens we know absolutely nothing about and forget what I just said.
-- NASA guy in a black suit
The phrase (Score:4, Funny)
Re:What the hell... (Score:3, Funny)
Nasa needs to... (Score:5, Funny)
Just to scare the crap out of the know nothings out there in the country that would be freaked out about the foam repairs.
Maybe add a dixie flag to the top of the shuttle and paint 01 on the sides, that would make it complete.