Korea's first astronaut heads for ISS
South Korea's first astronaut is en route to the ISS following the successful launch of a Russian Soyuz TMA-12 vehicle from Kazakhstan's Baikonur centre at 17:16 local (11:16 GMT) this morning. The Expedition 17 launch. Pic: NASA TV Biotechnology engineer Yi So-Yeon, 29 - who's accompanied on "Expedition 17" by Oleg Kononenko, …
Did anyone else notice
On the video of the launch (shown here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7335874.stm) the stick the astronaut uses to press buttons during the launch.
Here's hoping there's a spare one incase the drop it!!!!
Missed the important part...
She's bringing kimche with her. The ISS will never smell the same.
Mine's the one with Beano in the pocket.
Patent Infringment: The FingLonger
1,200 years Dr. Hubert Farnsworth will file a patent suit for copying his "FingLonger"!
Kimche Capers
We had to ban Kimche from our office - practitioners were banished to the car park.
Even then, you could smell it in the afternoon after people came back in and burped!
Can you imagine the incredible stink it's going to make in a space ship? I predict that the ISS astronauts will make her walk the plank.....
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