Monday 7 January 2013

C.O.L.B.E.R.T.

The treadmill on the International Space Station is the only piece of NASA engineered equipment in space that is named after a living human being - Stephen Colbert (!!!) thanks to his interest in a naming census. The "backronym" is Combined Operational Load-Bearing External Resistance Treadmill.


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