7 shuttle fliers plus 6 station guys equal record

[Swede]

Hope someone brought an air mattress.



Mix seven shuttle astronauts and six space station residents and you set a record for the biggest off-the-planet gathering.

NASA is aiming to launch Endeavour on Saturday morning to the international space station for a long, laborious construction job. When the shuttle pulls up, there will be 13 people at the station — the most people ever together in space at one time.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g8gpZRl3t8mV2RxsVjIuPU75dJeAD98O3D3G0

[Rincewind]

1. You Fools !!!!!

Don't you see what's happening? They are abandoning the planet! The government must know that the Earth is going to be destroyed and they are sneaking off. They are going to leave all of us here to die, probably attacked by a giant space goat, while they go off to live in their luxurious castle in the sky. You didn't really think that it would take that many years, and cost that many billions of dollars just to build a "space station" did you? We're all doomed I tell you, DOOMED!!!!!

[gtar100]

2. If we tell all the repubs they get the first seats, do you think we can get rid of them?

Probably wouldn't be fair to the rest of the universe to let such cancer out, though. Oh well, a planet free of their crazy, stupid bullshit is a nice thought.

[tinrobot]

3. Thats two basketball teams and then some...

They need to play a game... all above the net.

[byronius]

4. Can't wait until it hits the thousand mark.

Or the million.

And one of 'em's me.

[Phoonzang]

5. Boy the ISS is going to smell. Even worse than usual I mean... nt

[Lagomorph]

6. I watched Alan Shepard, the Moon Landing...

and now I'll see a space community of 13 people in an orbital space station.

I was working at a burger stand during the Moon Landing. About 30 minutes before the landing, there wasn't a car on the road. It was an incredible day. I ran across the street to a gas station and watched it on their black & white TV. Nobody said a word.

[Orsino]

7. Crazy kids.