[FPSPACE] It's Tranquility,not Colbert however...

[Zeger Nuyens]

Node 3 will be named Tranquility, but Colbert got his point...

> April 14, 2009
>
> John Yembrick 
> Headquarters, Washington 
> 202-358-1100 
> john.yembrick-1 at nasa.gov 
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> RELEASE: 09-082
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> NASA NEW SPACE STATION MODULE NAME HONORS APOLLO 11 ANNIVERSARY
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> WASHINGTON -- The International Space Station module formerly known as 
> Node 3 has a new name. After more than a million online responses, 
> the node will be called "Tranquility." 
>
> The name Tranquility was chosen from thousands of suggestions 
> submitted by participants on NASA's Web site, www.nasa.gov. The "Help 
> Name Node 3" poll asked people to vote for the module's name either 
> by choosing one of four options listed by NASA or offering their own 
> suggestion. Tranquility was one of the top 10 suggestions submitted 
> by respondents to the poll, which ended March 20. 
>
> "The public did a fantastic job and surprised us with the quality and 
> volume of the suggestions," said Bill Gerstenmaier, associate 
> administrator for Space Operations. "Apollo 11 landed on the moon at 
> the Sea of Tranquility 40 years ago this July. We selected 
> 'Tranquility' because it ties it to exploration and the moon and 
> symbolizes the spirit of international cooperation embodied by the 
> space station." 
>
> NASA announced the name Tuesday with the help of Expedition 14 and 15 
> astronaut Suni Williams on Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report." The 
> show's producers offered to host the name selection announcement 
> after comedian Stephen Colbert took an interest in the poll and urged 
> his viewers to suggest the name "Colbert," which received the most 
> entries. 
>
> "We don't typically name U.S. space station hardware after living 
> people and this is no exception," Gerstenmaier joked. "However, NASA 
> is naming its new space station treadmill the 'Combined Operational 
> Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill,' or COLBERT. We have 
> invited Stephen to Florida for the launch of COLBERT and to Houston 
> to try out a version of the treadmill that astronauts train on." 
>
> The treadmill is targeted to launch to the station in August. It will 
> be installed in Tranquility after the node arrives at the station 
> next year. A newly-created patch will depict the acronym and an 
> illustration of the treadmill. 
>
> Tranquility is scheduled to arrive at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in 
> Florida in May. There, it will be prepared for space shuttle 
> Endeavour's flight, designated STS-130, which is targeted for launch 
> in February 2010. Tranquility will join four other named U.S. modules 
> on the station: the Destiny laboratory, the Quest airlock, the Unity 
> node and the Harmony node. 
>
> Tranquility is a pressurized module that will provide room for many of 
> the space station's life support systems. Attached to the node is a 
> cupola, which is a unique work station with six windows on the sides 
> and one on top. 
>
> Suni Williams made the announcement on "The Colbert Report" two years 
> after running the Boston Marathon in space on a station treadmill 
> similar to COLBERT. Video of Williams' run and the name announcement 
> on "The Colbert Report" will air on NASA Television's Video File. For 
> NASA TV downlink, streaming video and scheduling information, visit: 
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> http://www.nasa.gov/ntv 
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> For more information about the node naming poll, visit: 
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> http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/name_ISS/index.html 
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> For more information about the station and the Tranquility module, 
> visit: 
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> http://www.nasa.gov/station 
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> For more information about the Apollo 11 anniversary, visit: 
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> http://www.nasa.gov/apollo40th 
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> For more information about "The Colbert Report," visit: 
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> http://www.colbertnation.com 
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