You may have heard about the Interplanetary Wasabi Attack on the International Space Station (some condiment sauce got loose, invoking a small but humorous panic onboard the ISS).
What no news service I have seen has mentioned is that this isn’t the first time Sunita Williams lost something in space– in December 2006 she dropped a camera while on a spacewalk, too. I’m not accusing her of being a butterfingers– if I were out in space I have no doubt I’d lose my helmet, or probably even the whole space station. I just hope the other astronauts don’t rib her too much — but if they do, they’ll use barbecue sauce this time.
HAHAHAHA! I kill me.
March 6th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
Wasabi is bad, but in the novel “Stowaway To The Moon”, the kid hiding in the Apollo command module accidentally pees his pants, releasing a drifting string of golden jewels for the crew to admire.
March 6th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
Spare the rib puns.
March 6th, 2007 at 3:01 pm
I sincerely hope she’s not a butterfingers. Those things get crumbs all over the place!!:)
March 6th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
Wasabi is all very well but I’m thinking the accompanying sushi couldn’t be very fresh
March 6th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
Gee, with all the wasabi floating around, I was waiting for somebody to call it the International Spice Station.
March 6th, 2007 at 4:06 pm
At least the ant colony is intact.
March 6th, 2007 at 4:19 pm
OMG GIANT ANTS ARE ATTACKING THE SHUTTLE! WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIEEEEEEE!
That was a funny Simpsons:)
March 6th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
What we don’t want is for the glovebox filled with toxic chemicals to spring an innocuous leak, poisoning the air and causing the whole shuttle crew to be rendered unfit to fly the thing home, back to THE CAPE.
March 6th, 2007 at 9:36 pm
“I was waiting for somebody to call it the International Spice Station” – john
HUAHDUhduahduHDUHudhaudhUDHAUDHudhuHDUAHSDUAHSD
LOL
March 7th, 2007 at 12:04 am
Apropos of zero-g, here’s an interesting article about what it’s really like
on the vomit comet. Quick precis “I threw up 33 times and then passed out. Cool.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,2027269,00.html
March 7th, 2007 at 1:56 am
I, for one, welcome our new spicy overlords.
March 7th, 2007 at 3:26 am
I must condiment Phil on his puns.
Just don’t quit the day job…
March 7th, 2007 at 7:22 am
A true ” Lost in Spice” story,,,
Groan,,,
GAry 7
March 7th, 2007 at 7:57 am
Once there were the Spice Girls, who were quite spacey. Sunita, on the other hand, is a space girl, but quite spicy.
March 7th, 2007 at 10:50 am
Was she also part of the crew that kept losing tools and parts while installing the new solar panels?
March 8th, 2007 at 8:36 am
I am amazed the media hasn’t picked up on this as yet
another example of why women shouldn’t be astronauts.
I am not advocating such a thing, I am just commenting
on how the media likes to sensationalize everything out
of proportion.