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NASA lights blue touchpaper on Discovery

Finnbar

That's 

1638 BST, for anybody who's interested.

Fluffykins

@FInnbar 

"1638 BST, for anybody who's interested."

What time is it for anyone who isn't interested?

Coat, going

Dan

@That's 

not really.

Feargal Reilly

And in RST? 

Dead Vulture

What is it in Register Standard Time?

The Other Steve

@Finnbar 

Nice one

Alistair

Made out of recycled washing machines 

Joke

"She and her crew will spend two weeks on the space station, attaching the Italian-built Harmony module"

I hope they kept the receipt.

Adam Wynne

@Finnbar 

Nice one Finnbar!

Bad Sherriff! Bad!

Luther Blissett

2 stories in the wrong order 

Why does the interesting and thought-provoking story, namely the PRC's first venture to the Moon, come as an afterthought to a Shuttle launch weather story? The USA rocket is bigger, better, faster - we all know that - but this is like preferring the repeat of a TV sitcom to the first showing of a documentary.

Is Ms Sherriff a NASA hack, or just a fangirl?

Of course, if Paris Hilton was mounted on the end of Discovery's booster, that would make all the difference.

Tim

parking 

Coat

Woman in command hope no reverse parking's involved could be a long mission . Will they be calling at tesco's on the way.