It's unpacking day for astronauts at space station
Posted on Monday, November 17 @ 12:33:16 CST by Raulken |
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HOUSTON (AP) - Monday was unpacking day for the astronauts at the international space station. Among the top items to be hauled into the space station: a new toilet and a contraption that purifies urine and sweat into drinkable water at the orbiting...
 FONT SIZE EMAIL PRINT SHARE RSS Does the International Space Station really need a name? Isn't ISS enough? In this file photo provided by NASA backdropped by Earth's horizon and the blackness of space, the International Space Station is seen from Space Shuttle Endeavour. Maybe. Maybe not. It once was known as Alpha. President Reagan wanted to name it Freedom, but that name didn't take. Parts of the space station have names: Zarya, Kibo, Destiny, Harmony and Columbus, but the entire assembly is just the plain-old, clunky, wordy International Space Station. The space shuttles all have names. Atlantis, Discovery, Endeavour. The commanders and pilots who fly the orbiters describe each of them as having their own individual personality. When the Space Shuttle Columbia fell apart in 2003 the astronaut who was the pilot on its first mission recalled Columbia lovingly. Related Blast Off! Shuttle Endeavour Set to Launch WATCH: U.S. Tourists Dock in SpaceGood News for Cubs' High Flying Fan Bob Crippen told mourners Columbia was hardly a thing of beauty, but, he said, "Except to those of us who loved and cared for her. She was often bad mouthed for being a little heavy in the rear end, but many of us can relate to that. Many said she was...
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