Colbert wins ISS naming contest!
As a religious watcher of the Colbert Report when he told his nation to get his name put on NASA’s node 3 for the international space station I voted no less then 10 times. Well it looks like we won!
Victory dance!
From the Assosiated Press…
The name “Colbert” beat out NASA’s four suggested options in the spaceagency’s effort to have the public help name the addition. The new room will be launched later this year.
NASA’s mistake was allowing write-ins. Colbert urged viewers of his Comedy Central show, “The Colbert Report” to write in his name. And they complied, with 230,539 votes. That clobbered Serenity, one of the NASA choices, by more than 40,000 votes. Nearly 1.2 million votes were cast by the time thecontest ended Friday.
[Source: AP]
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