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Space Shuttle slated for early morning roll call

Geoff Johnson

Location, Location, Location. 

Their problem is, they put the launch pads in the wrong place.

Surely everyone knows the best place to store and launch a spacecraft is under a false lake surface in an extinct volcano. Alternatively a small spacecraft can be stored under a swimming pool outside a house on a remote island.

They just aren't watching the right educational TV.

John Stag

Umbrella.... 

There's this thing called an "umbrella".

They're pretty cheap to make - maybe NASA should investigate them....