Gwyneth Paltrow rouses Discovery crew
Singing thesp heralds last hours in space
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The crew of space shuttle Discovery was roused this morning by Gwyneth Paltrow's Coming Home, a choice wake-up ditty selected by the space station flight controllers in Mission Control.
The venerable vehicle is on track to land at Kennedy Space Center at 16:57 GMT at the end of its final mission - STS-133 to the International Space Station. Capcom Charlie Hobaugh enthused to commander Steve Lindsey: “The weather looks great.”
If all doesn't go according to plan, Discovery has another landing opportunity at Kennedy at 18:34 GMT, and "additional opportunities are available on Thursday at Kennedy and at backup landing site Edwards Air Force Base in California". ®
COMMENTS
End of an era, etc
And then they can put the Space Shuttle in a museum next to the Harrier and Concorde and any other cutting edge technologies that have been discontinued and not replaced.
In space...
... noone can hear you scream "arrrgh! turn this shite off!"
As someone who loves all kinds of music...
...including yes, country, bluegrass, folk, Handel, Beethoven, Nazareth, Rainbow, the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Cash Calloway, Chuck Berry, and many, many others: Paltrow's song is by no means the worst that I've ever heard. It's really not all that bad. She also has a much better voice than I would have expected from someone who started a professional singing career in her 40s.
Nope, bad is Leonard Nimoy's abortion of an album. Or for that matter, Shatner's. :-)
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