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National Agency of So Amusing (NASA)

April 20, 2009

NASA recently launched an opportunity for people to vote on the name for a new International Space Station module.  The agency provided a few options and then a blank where voters could submit their own suggestion, though NASA would make the final decision.  Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert encouraged fans to submit his name and NASA announced “Colbert” was the top vote receiver.   Last week astronaut Sunita Williams appeared on Colbert Nation and announced the new module would be named “Tranquility” in honor of the 40^th anniversary of Apollo 11 landing on the moon’s Sea of Tranquility.  Williams then surprised fans by stating that the space station will include a Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill (acronym COLBERT). 


Fans could say that NASA didn’t play fair
As it turns out they need not despair
‘Cause on the space station
There’s a small notation
That the treadmill’s acronym is COLBERT