Vindication for Norm MacDonald

On some TV talk show a while back, TV funnyman Norm MacDonald was discussing how the Heaven's Gate cult members had been neutered: "I'd like to fly in a spaceship too, but..."

Now, NASA is considering making that real.

On a lighter note, the story does have encouraging news of what top scientists are now terming a possible "space DP:"

there were allegations that Russia claimed a space first in 1982 when Svetlana Savitskaya shared the Salyut 7 space station with two Russian male colleagues

Phwoar.