NASA Treads Lightly
We’ve been covering the NASA Node 3 naming contest with our favorite being Serenity, after the ship on Firefly and the movie Serenity.
Frankly, NASA had their back against the wall on this one and I think this was the only thing that is even close to fair. They named a treadmill after Stephen Colbert and scrapped the contest altogether, going with Tranquility.
NASA announced Tuesday that it won’t name a room in the international space station after the comedian. Instead, it has named a treadmill after him.
NASA earlier held an online contest to name a room (or “node”) at the international space station. With write-in votes, the name “Colbert” beat out NASA’s four suggested options: Serenity, Legacy, Earthrise and Venture.
On Tuesday’s “The Colbert Report” on Comedy Central, astronaut Sunita Williams announced that NASA — which always maintained it had the right to choose an appropriate name — would not name the node after Colbert.
Instead, Node 3 will henceforth be called Tranquility, the eighth most popular response submitted by respondents in the poll. The node’s name alludes to where Apollo 11 landed on the moon — the Sea of Tranquility.
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