Feb 8 2010Pics Or You Lie: Last Night Shuttle Launch Carries Viewing Portal To Space Station
The last scheduled night launch of a space shuttle (besides mine) went down early this morning, and carried a very important payload. A pickle jar full of my sperms? No. A viewing portal to be attached to the International Space Station (sorry for getting your hopes up, aliens).
On board Endeavor (STS-130) is Cupola, a relatively huge bay window to be attached to the International Space Station (ISS) that will give astronauts the most magnificent view ever seen from space (short of taking a spacewalk). Expect great pictures from this 1.6-ton behemoth -- it's 9.7 feet wide and 5 feet long with seven windows all around, including a 31.5-inch circular window, the largest ever flown into space.
Hey, that's cool too. Why start a colony of alien GW's when you can take pretty pictures of earth? Besides every good reason you could possibly think of, including, wait -- I wouldn't have to pay child support for all them freaky alien kids, would I? Because I'll fight that shit all the way to the Supreme Court Maury. I AM NOT THE FATHER.
Shuttle's final night launch lifts largest window ever into orbit [dvice]
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Hi-Res Picture (moderately related) [space]
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Reader Comments
1. aznterrorist - February 8, 2010 8:15 PM
last =(
2. space - February 8, 2010 8:21 PM
space
3. suomynonA - February 8, 2010 8:31 PM
Awesome photo
4. cf1221 - February 8, 2010 8:43 PM
The title made me think that we had a portal to space... Sadly not =(
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6. Tennist0 - February 8, 2010 8:53 PM
Maury is the MAN...aside from GW of coarse. GW is above Maury...and yes, Dr. Phil is also below GW
7. Closet Nerd - February 8, 2010 10:05 PM
That is a pretty cool picture. Its pretty hard to even physically understand the size of the earth, let alone the size of the universe, and space around it, and more space and....... damn, it smells like there is a bag of dog shit in my pocket.... just sayin
8. THE smart - February 8, 2010 11:43 PM
i has a boner
9. Graf Zeppelin - February 9, 2010 12:50 AM
that window is awesome. when they scrap ISS and I buy it second hand as an evil villain's lair I'll sit by that window sipping cocktails with a straw, petting a gremlin.
@7-8 is you high?
10. Imperator - February 9, 2010 4:12 AM
looks like this is the end of an era.
it was nice whilst it lasted.
this, coupled with the cancellation of the NASA moon/mars missions it looks like the institution that Kennedy help to create is now just a thing of the past.
I suppose...
... we will not see anything on this scale in our lifetime.
11. Jaded Icon - February 9, 2010 9:40 AM
It looks more and more like private enterprise will be responsible for space travel, which could actually be a good thing.
12. Kyderdog - February 9, 2010 6:21 PM
THE CAKES A LIE
THE CAKES A LIE
The Cakes a Lie!!!!!
13. tuna - February 10, 2010 12:14 PM
is there a HQ version of that picture? it's so nice