Shuttle Discovery Lands Safely

Tuxedo Jack writes "CNN and NASA report that the space shuttle Discovery has landed safely at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Concerns for its safe return were raised when spacewalks were necessary to repair the vehicle when external components were damaged; however, the shuttle landed safely with Commander Eileen Collins at the control yoke."

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woman driver lands shuttle safely

[Sonicboom]

one small step for her - one giant step for womankind.

Re:woman driver lands shuttle safely

['t is DjiM]

One million dollars

Re:woman driver lands shuttle safely

[SupremeSpod]

>I am a 48 yo grandmother and feminist and I have been an engineer for 26 years. I was programming in C and assembly in the 70's when most of you sexist geeks were in diapers or not even born.

I bet you're hell to live with, haven't you got some pants to wash or shirts to iron?

Re:woman driver lands shuttle safely

[isorox]

Certainly beat's Deanna Trois attempt in Star Trek. In Generations, the first time she pilots the ship in 8 years and she crashes it into a planet. In Nemesis they give her another go and IIRC she rams it into a Romulan ship.

Good to know.

[GigsVT]

Eileen Collins

It's important that we have female shuttle pilots.

I mean, what if the core of the earth suddenly stopped spinning, and we needed to send a team down to jump start the core? If the core did that they could probably make a movie about the core doing that...

They could call it "The middle of the planet"... or something.

IM transcript

[kriegsman]

[5:11am]
MissionK0nTR07: wb
MileHighEileen: ty

-Mark

Re:Good.

[It doesn't come easy]

NASA engineers were having a decidedly difficult job picking a landing time that didn't correlate to your waking schedule...

Re:Cost of landing at Edwards..

[Nutshell_TA]

1 million dollars! muhahahha!

Re:Women Space Pilot

[Jackdaw Rookery]

Janeway got you hot and bothered?

You didn't really say that, did you? Really?

*Staggers off in shock*

Re:Welcome home

[uberdave]

Well, if it is roughly egg shaped, about half a metre tall, with four leathery flaps that peel back to reveal a crablike organism with a long scaly tail and acid for blood, it might be a bad thing.

Re:What was that?

[dr_dank]

The commentator on Fox News asked the same thing.

Then guest commentator James Dobson from Focus on the Family said "No! It's the holy spirit guiding them home, you liberal commie!" at which point Bill O'Reilly bust in and said "Shut up, shut UP! cut his mike".