Image courtesy of Nasa So the date today is 1st April, which makes it April Fool’s Day and I hope that I have just spotted a Nasa linked April Fool’s joke – because nobody could be that incompetent!
According to the online Space news site – Spaceflight Now – the big boss of Nasa, Charlie Bolden, will admit in a news conference later today that two of the space shuttles flew under the wrong names for almost two years.
The news item claims that in the 1990s, following a change in the Nasa logo, technicians painted the new logo and the name Endeavour on shuttle Atlantis, while in a neighbouring hangar, the name Atlantis was painted on the shuttle Endeavour.
Sorry guys - nice try – but you’ll have to do better than that next year!
To read the full story – click here
According to the online Space news site – Spaceflight Now – the big boss of Nasa, Charlie Bolden, will admit in a news conference later today that two of the space shuttles flew under the wrong names for almost two years.
The news item claims that in the 1990s, following a change in the Nasa logo, technicians painted the new logo and the name Endeavour on shuttle Atlantis, while in a neighbouring hangar, the name Atlantis was painted on the shuttle Endeavour.
Sorry guys - nice try – but you’ll have to do better than that next year!
To read the full story – click here
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