More Journo-Fail

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Aug 172010
 

The Most Amazing News Story Of The Day:

Ex-NASA worker admits stealing space suit

Wow! Stealing a space suit? That’s pretty hard core! NASA space suits cost something like ten million dollars, and are large, heavy items. How did he swipe it? The helmet alone would be difficult to steal… it’s not like he could have put it in his lunchbox. And what was he planning on doing with it? Putting it on eBay? Perhaps the article will have details of this amazing theft…

The flight suit bearing the name patch Sally Ride for the first U.S. woman astronaut in space is valued at more than $1,000.

Ummm… ah. A… flight suit.

Errrr… a flight suit looks like this:

flightsuit.jpg

While a space suit looks like this:

spacesuit.jpg

Considering that the source of the article is the Miami Herald, you’d think that maybe they’d have someone on staff who knew a little something or other about that big organization down the road with all the rockets and junk.

 Posted by at 9:28 pm

  4 Responses to “More Journo-Fail”

  1. Kobe says:
    August 18, 2010 at 4:57 am

    “Smith’s estranged wife contacted authorities after finding the items in a suitcase”

    She read Sally Ride written somewhere in the suit, no doubt about it.

  2. Milkman says:
    August 18, 2010 at 5:22 am

    I dunno if there are any Trailer Park Boys fans on here, but I immediately thought of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfWyhIuC6oA

    Language Warning!

    I have propagated this link as our Agency’s future; refer to your post on killing the space program and the teams/knowledge that was lost as a result.

  3. Michael Holt says:
    August 18, 2010 at 12:17 pm

    Obviously, Calvin wasn’t a rocket scientist.

  4. Jim says:
    August 18, 2010 at 6:37 pm

    Exhibit A for the prosecution in the case of reality v. contemporary journalism.

    Jim

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