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Catch a falling star…

Posted: September 9th, 2004 | Author: | Filed under: Vintage | | Comments Off

So the latest space probe returns to Earth and slams into the Utah Salt Flats destroying the collected data.

It seemed a bit of an outlandish solution… “catching” a falling space craft.

It reminded me of “Catch the Pigeon”

hmmm.

My sources at NASA have revealed to me that for the next mission the vehicle will be an old Model T Ford with a klaxon type horn. The doors, bonnet and boot lid will fall off when the second stage is deployed.

The craft will be piloted by “Coco” and “Binky”, with the rest of the crew being made up of “The Marvelous Mancini Brothers”, Toto the chimp and “The Amazing Waldo”.

Experiments will be carried out into the behaviour of custard pies and buckets of confetti in space.
There is also a space walk planned during which Coco will test NASA’s new “Big floppy space boots”.
The whole thing will be fired into space from a giant cannon.

To prevent further instances as the one recently experienced, a giant safety net will be erected in Utah.

Roll up, roll up.

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