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ISS expands parking capacity

Anonymous Coward

Disabled bays 

Coat

What's the limit of parking bays before they need to paint a wheelchair on one of them?

Anonymous Coward

Welcome to the ISS space services car park 

Go

Charges:

Up to 2 hours: FREE

3 hours: £75,000

4 hours: £85,000

Overnight: £150,000

It's just another step on the way to the ISS serving bacon sandwiches and warm bags of maltesers to space truckers.

Franklin

"I'm sorry, Dave..." 

Joke

(Insert obligatory reference to recalcitrant sentient computers and pod bay doors here.)

Elmer Phud

Take over 

Flame

Them Russkies are taking over everything - they've got our gas our oil and our football. Now they are setting up the ISS for an invasion just as the Americans' attention is elsewhere. This is why they armed all those Afghanis some time back, they knew that in a few years the Americans would be pouring all their money in to weapons. That Bin Laden bloke? look at the beard - he's a Russian, first name is really Ivan not Bin. Next they will be coming down your highstreet in tanks, this is what you get when you let all those immigrants in - the next Russian truck up to the ISS will have 20 asylum seekers in it!

Graham Marsden

Mode = Red Dwarf... 

Joke

Rimmer: 'That's it, I'm invoking All-Nations Agreement Article 39436175880932/B.'

Kryten: '39436175880932/B. "All nations attending the conference are only allocated one parking space." Is that entirely relevant sir? I mean, here we are, in mortal danger and you're worried about the Chinese delegates bringing two cars.'

Seth Galitzer

@Charges 

Don't forget to double that for USD.

Charles Manning

Tradesman's entrance 

For the plumber to park up when he comes to fix the bog.

Outcast

Elite 

Thumb Up

They'll be renaming it to Diso or Ross 154 soon.. Bring it on.... /me is a trucker.. cues up Space Trucking - DP

TimM

How long... 

Joke

before one of those "space trucks" sports a McDonalds logo and carrying a fleet of spotty teen astronaut burger flippers?

David Stever

Parking spaces 

Alien

Remember- the new module ups the Russkie parking to four spaces, while on the US side, they've got five empty spaces now, and after next year, they'll have the parking space count up to eight. ...and a lovely porch with a view.

US law says that the handicap space should be the closest to the door, but I don't know which entrance they'd count for that.

Thurstan R McDougle

Re: Disabled bays 

Once they have one is that when Stephen Hawking can go up?

TimM

Beach 

Joke

As soon as they add the beach extension, you can be sure the Germans will enter the space race.