Reason #1 Why I'll Never Be an Astronaut

Astronaut Golf I have no clue what the hell they are talking about.

I am watching the live view on NASA TV's Live Feed of the Atlantis shuttle launch, and all is hunky-dory, except for a little bit of an ice buildup on some of the fuel tanks. However, they cut to a guy who started to speak about what additions and fixes would be made to the Hubble telescope (which I thought they were scrapping?), and it made my head practically explode between my headphones.

Apparently some new cameras are going into the Hubble, and the guy showed them. He held them in his hand (which I'm sure cost a hefty price tag) and began speaking of their purposes. I think I got to the third word before I was having a WTF? moment. Something about spectrographs and infrared hooba-habbas and other jib-jab. I also loved how the interviewer just nodded her head, as if what she heard was commonplace.

ANYWAYS, exciting stuff regardless, besides the fact that it takes an hour and change to count down from t-minus 20 minutes. Stupid holds...

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