NASA screws up Space Shuttle Banner

[Deja Q]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/07/14/ap/strange/main3058244.shtml


Ranks up there with "morans", "lanaguage", and "your in our country"... :silly:

[Bucky]

1. That reminds me of the time those two NASA janitors got the "lunch" and "launch" buttons reversed

Oh, the hijinx that ensued that time!

[TommyO]

2. In NASA's defense, it is the accepted spelling of the word in the United States

it's just not the name of this particular space shuttle!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

3. I like the banner better.

It's one of the correct spellings of the word. "Endeavour" makes it look like a freakin' Canadian shuttle, eh?

Or they could have made it simpler, just name the shuttle "Try".

I just hope all the shuttle bits stay together.

[GOPisEvil]

4. It's named after Captain Cook's first ship.

http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/resources/orbiters/endeavour.html

From the link:
Endeavour, the newest addition to the four-orbiter fleet, is named after the first ship commanded by James Cook, the 18th century British explorer, navigator and astronomer. On Endeavour's maiden voyage in August 1768, Cook sailed to the South Pacific (to observe and record the infrequent event of the planet Venus passing between the Earth and the sun). Determining the transit of Venus enabled early astronomers to find the distance of the sun from the Earth, which then could be used as a unit of measurement in calculating the parameters of the universe. In 1769, Cook was the first person to fully chart New Zealand (which was previously visited in 1642 by the Dutchman Abel Tasman from the Dutch province of Zeeland). Cook also surveyed the eastern coast of Australia , navigated the Great Barrier Reef and traveled to Hawaii.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

5. Duh. I wan't paying attention

so it's a British ship, not Canadian. Thanks for that.

I didn't know why it was spelled that way.

:hi:

[JVS]

6. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to get these things right

[pokerfan]

17. Remember this is the group that screwed the pooch

on the Mars Climate Orbiter mission back in 1999.

The navigation error arose because a NASA subcontractor (Lockheed Martin) used Imperial units (pound-seconds) instead of the metric units (newton-seconds) as specified by NASA.

[pokerfan]

7. Engineres are natoriiously bad spelers

[Deja Q]

8. Definatley

:rofl:

[sakabatou]

9. So smart, they forgot spellcheck

[pokerfan]

10. Spellcheck was most likely their downfall

Actually, spellcheck was most likely their downfall.

Both Firefox, MSWord and even the spell check on this message board all suggest Endeavor.

[sakabatou]

12. Oh

[Deja Q]

13. They should have offshored the banner making job to the UK...

:hide:

[Kutjara]

11. Even funnier, while the CNN newsmodel was busy making fun...

...of NASA's error, there were three glaring typos in the crawl along the bottom of the screen.

I blame the parents. Or something...

[Deja Q]

14. I blame the breastfeeding babies at olive garden...

:rofl:

[pokerfan]

15. or vegetarian eating eggs at Denny's

[Deja Q]

16. Vegetarians can eat all the eggs they want. Vegans had better not...

:rofl:

(Vegetarians refers to not eating critter meat. Vegans avoid anything that's animal, either direct or indirectly made from a critter.)

[pokerfan]

18. I thought vegetarians ate vegetables?

And humanitarians ate well ...

:rofl: