COLBERT Ready For Some Serious Exercise
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Stephen Colbert of the "Colbert Report" didn't get his name on the node for the space station, but he certainly got something out of it. Stephen Colbert and NASA were duking it out when Colbert had his audience members write in to name a space station node after him. I guess NASA thought that the name wasn't regal enough or something, because they refused his request and named it Tranquility (Sorry, Firefly fans, who voted Serenity into second place). As the video and NASA article shows, NASA decided to instead name a treadmill in the space station the Combined Operational Load-Bearing External Resistance Treadmill, or COLBERT. Colbert, then, was even more excited that his name would get to do something useful, or to use his phrase, "However far the space station goes, [the] treadmill will always have gone a few miles more." NASA was even more excited, apparently, for this opportunity to attract a new generation's attention. I don't know about that. What could NASA do to make kids more interested in their activities?
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