19 Dec
2006
19 Dec
'06
8:14 a.m.
Arthur Rowe wrote:
/Astronaut Bill Oefelein takes time to answer student questions and provide his thoughts about his training and STS-116 space shuttle mission./
Space geeks (like me) who pour over the daily "execute packages" have noticed that mission control has been teasing poor Bill mercilessly by mangling his name in the timeline. He has been referred to as Ovaltine, Oxyclean, and today "Oberpfaffenhofen"
The students should have asked him what he did to deserve such teasing!
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts116/news/execut...
-Joe KM1P