I was watching NASA’s channel—admiring Discovery’s pitch maneuver as it approaches to dock with the ISS—and I found myself thinking, “This is glacially slow.” So I sped it up by four.*
While launching is a pretty fast business, maneuvering in space is even more boring than turtle porn. How are we ever going to have space battles, I don’t know. But for sure, they will look more like Star Trek than Star Wars. [NASA]
https://gizmodo.com/shuttle-riding-bat-dies-the-most-glorious-death-imagina-5173385
* And added the Conchords, of course (go buy the damn album already.)
