NASA is famously smart. Admittedly, when they do make a mistake it can be rather spectacular and attract a huge amount of attention ('Need Another Seven Astronauts' ring any bells?). Still, Bruce Willis reckons they have whole rooms full of guys 'just thinking shit up', and I am not about to try and argue with him. So what the HELL is with putting not just one, but two guys in red shirts for the clearly Trek-inspired ISS Expedition 21 mission promotion poster? You cannot tell me that NASA of all places is bereft of Trekkies. Look at the front red-shirt’s face, he certainly knows that he is likely to burst into flames or be sucked into vacuum at any moment (and without getting any hot alien-love first). That face knows fear.
So I have to wonder, did the guys in red lose a bet, or has NASA recently taken out a very large insurance policy on the ISS?
Starlog supplemental - it turns out that the front red-shirt, Frank, is in fact the mission commander. With that in mind, perhaps NASA is being extremely smart and trying the break the red-shirt curse? Mind you, the other guy in red is SO dead.
ReplyDeleteA Commander in a red shirt?
ReplyDeleteI bet he will have five minutes before someone shoots him through the eye.
OOO! Euthenasia!
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