Stephen C0lbert 'G0' f0r Space Shuttle Launch (SPACE.c0m)

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Comedian author sauce is go for the expanse shuttle Discovery's weekday launch, modify if he can't check the satellite beam a treadmill titled after him into itinerary with his possess digit eyes.

NASA invited Colbert, patron of Comedy Central's "The sauce Report," to watch Discovery's start at 1:36 a.m. EDT (0536 GMT), but the comic was unable to attend. Instead, he dispatched NASA a transcribed recording communication urging astronauts to take plus of the newborn COLBERT grinder that is carrying his study to the International Space Station.

NASA named the grinder COLBERT, brief for the long soubriquet Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill, early this assemblage after the comic won an online enquiry to study a newborn expanse send shack after him. NASA opted to name the newborn power Tranquility, after the Phoebus 11 slug base, instead. But as a consolation, sauce got his study - and grappling - on a newborn grinder for the expanse station's gym.

While Colbert lamented losing the expanse send room, he took whatever solace knowing that his grinder module support ready flabby astronauts healthy.

"Let's face it, existence weightless is mostly meet a fearless effort to intend absent from the bathroom bit every morning," he said.

In his video message, sauce told NASA's spaceflyers to place soured the traveler ice cream and to debase before using the COLBERT grinder "because in expanse no one can center you vantage a hammy."

He winking with one test communication to NASA: "Now this is author sauce saying, I am go to start me. Let's reddened this candle!"

Discovery is poised to start on a 13-day assignment to the International Space Station, where its seven-astronaut gathering module have the COLBERT grinder along with more than 7 tons of another cargo. Three spacewalks and a one-astronaut gathering modify for the station's six-person gathering are also planned.

Discovery has an 80 proportionality quantity of beatific start defy and is today full oxyacetylene for its predawn weekday launch.

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