Our tattered space shuttle, spinning 220 miles overhead, shed a few unexpected parts when it took off. . .tile, insulation, and the like. A chunk here, a tile there, and pretty soon you're talking real trouble.
Yesterday, they sent astronaut Steve Robinson on an extra-vehicular spacewalk to pull out two chunks of "gap filler," (space-caulk?) that were dangling from the shuttle: Mission Accomplished.
NASA, however, in the news this morning, said that they may need another walk, because a "thermal blanket" outside the craft had been somehow compromised.
NASA seems to be whistling in the dark on the matter of our deconstructing shuttle. I wonder just what the astronauts are thinking?
A couple of days ago, I saw a bumper sticker I liked on an old car:
Honk if anything falls off
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