Money falling off the Space Station....."Mistakenly discarded...."....If you believe that ..I've got a bridge to sell you.....
Accidental Space Junk
Boeing Workers Throw Out Space Station Parts
The Associated Press
H U N T S V I L L E, Ala., March 3 ? Boeing Co. workers
combed a Huntsville landfill looking for
mistakenly discarded items ? two parts of the
International Space Station valued at $750,000.
The nitrogen and oxygen tanks used by astronauts were
never found despite a ?pretty intense search,? said Boeing
spokesman Jim Keller.
The tanks apparently were sent to the landfill last month
after they had been moved outside a building, still in their
5-foot-by-5-foot wooden crates, to make room for the
installation of another space station part at Boeing?s
Huntsville plant, officials said Thursday.
Oops, We Still Needed Those
?Unfortunately, the crates were not moved back into the
building and, as a result, they have been mistakenly
discarded,? Keller said. ?Obviously, we take the incident very
seriously.?
Boeing is building most of the major U.S. modules and
components for the space station at NASA?s Marshall Space
Flight Center in Huntsville.
The lost tanks would have provided air for astronauts.
Spares have already been installed, but if new ones are
required, the government, not Boeing, would have to pay for
it, Keller said. Boeing?s contract doesn?t address the
possibility for such a mishap, he said.
NASA spokesman Dwayne Brown said today the agency
was investigating whether additional spares were needed. |
