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Shuttle Missions Will Be Monitored From Space

Posted by timothy on from the big-picture dept.

los furtive writes "According to this news article NASA has made an agreement with the U.S. military so that all future shuttle missions will be monitored by National Imagery and Mapping Agency satellites."

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  1. Re:and this will help how? by vandelais · · Score: 0, Funny

    "If another shuttle gets a plate damaged, and NASA can clearly see it while the shuttle is in space, what will they be able to do?"

    They could at least aim it at Iraq.
    -or France-

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  2. Outer space. by rice_burners_suck · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have a better idea. What they should do is build a space shuttle out of indestructible materials so that even if the thing crashes at the speed of light into a sphere of iron the size of Earth and more dense than the universe before the big bang, it will be the sphere that will break and not the shuttle. And they should use these materials to build space ships the size of the whole planet and fly them around in space. Someone from another galaxy will be looking in their telescope at the planets and they'll see this thing move around and they won't understand what kind of weird orbit that "star" is in. It'll really get them thinking. Then, they'll fly over here to investigate it, find that Earth is rich in natural resources and kill us all in order to take these resources. At least that'll put Saddam out of power.

    1. Re:Outer space. by TummyX · · Score: 4, Funny

      Stoned huh?

    2. Re:Outer space. by rice_burners_suck · · Score: 1, Funny
      Didn't you read my sig? "C2 H5 OH. Because Denial is a river in Egypt." In case you don't have a masters degree in chemistry like I do, C2 H5 OH is the chemical formula for ethanol, otherwise known as beverage alcohol. Can you guess what I do with this substance?

      I don't need drugs to get high. I'm high on life.

  3. Watching from above by gmuslera · · Score: 3, Funny

    The article title left almost nothing to imagination. Jokes will spread all around, like that the next problem will appear as reported by "Monitor 9 from Outer Space", or if the next mission have an astronaut with religious conviction will say "somebody watch for me up there".

  4. They have been watched for some time now. by infonography · · Score: 3, Funny
    The Greys and Gary Seven have been monitoring our space program for ages.

    We should just ask them for copies of theirs.

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  5. Great! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Now we can get birds eye view of the explosions!

  6. In related news... by tlambert · · Score: 4, Funny

    In related news...

    American Airlines has announced that the regular "Atlanata Shuttle" flights will now be monitored from Atlanta.

    -- Terry

  7. space porn? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    does this mean there will be a webcam feed of astronauts doing it in space? maybe if they took jenna jameson to space they could cure some of their budget woes.

  8. This is Ground Control to Major Tom by I-R-Baboon · · Score: 2, Funny

    We can see you mooning Russia

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  9. Hurry up NASA.... by Vandil+X · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hurry up NASA... We've only got 60 more years until Zefram Cochrane is supposed to invent Warp Drive!

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