space shuttle launch

Quick Quiz:? When the space shuttle Discovery launch was delayed often provides the International Space Station (ISS), how many crew will be back, you say? Put 6-1/2.

Sporting a sleek bronze helmet with a cool Iron Man-reflective screen, plus a tight white uniform, then head to the local gym, the extra half of R2. Think pencil-neck Power Ranger and no legs.

R2 is a waist-up is part of a humanoid robot - a prototype "robonaut" may be just as at home, a factory production line, to restore the power converters on the outside of the station, or holding a button while an astronaut losing trainer Colbert cranky.

Launch of space shuttle Discovery last: it was the shuttle program is worth?

Indeed, half of the interchangeable parts, the ISS can only be exchanged for people in space suits, "says Ron Diftler, robonaut Project, Johnson Space Flight Center in Houston. Preparations for the spacewalk is time-consuming, and outside of the lock of the work downright dangerous.

"Our goal is to robonaut to build a robot to approach the capacity of a spacesuited astronaut," said Mr. Diftler. "If we do so, the robot has multiple roles."

In addition, to obtain some of the more routine spacewalk tasks for the robot to relieve astronauts of mundane tasks in the drive. The robot can also act as a sort of apprentice plumber.

lincoln tunnel accident

For more information about the accident was the middle of Manhattan with the Lincoln Tunnel tubes earlier this morning.

According to the New York Fire Department, two buses collided with a motorcycle in the tunnel.

The motorcyclist was seriously injured and taken to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan with a broken shoulder and femur, the FDNY spokesman said. The crash victim was intubated in the hospital, the spokesman added.

A total of 52 people were injured in the incident. Some were treated on the spot, while 13 took Roosevelt Hospital in New York.

North Hudson Regional Fire and Rescue Co-Director Jeff Welz talked Port Authority officials estimate that the central tube will remain closed for a good part of the day as officials investigate the accident.

Welz said that New Jersey sent eight ambulances to standby at the end of the Lincoln Tunnel.According Weehawken Jersey City Medical Center spokesman, Mark Rabson, the Weehawken Volunteer Ambulance first team on the spot after the accident.

Rabson said JCMC was one of many that have responded to the scene, but not patients, because it was easier for emergency vehicles was wounded in the Manhattan of the tunnel traffic.

jessica hahn

The episode on Tuesday (Feb. 22) "The View" Jessica Hahn in history as part of the theme of the show this week, interviewed people who were famous for their less than stellar reasons. Hahn was the infamous year 1980, because they had a sexual relationship with televangelists Jim Bakker when he was secretary of the Church.

Baker then imprisoned Hahn pays out of his mouth. Hahn Baker has always said he and another church member drugged and raped her, while Baker has always insisted that the case was the consensus.

Hahn during the segment on "The View" host Barbara Walters brought the problem of sexual relationship, in which Hahn noted that Walters wrote in his book about one thing he is married to a senator (Walters cause "of the then Senator Edward William Brooke III was described in his book" Audition "). The outraged Walters replied that he was there to talk to Hahn's life, not hers, then, Walters took a few interviews.

Hee. Had a number of other gems, such as the Hahn talk about how his deceased fiance's best friend "miracle" - was her fiance Ron Leavitt, creator of "Married with Children", who died a few years ago. Hahn also staggers around it as something they are high. We will video if we have it.

Hahn parlayed her infamous case, a Playboy cover and pictorial in November 1987 and again in September 1988. But my favorite thing is always related to Hahn, as played by Jan Hooks with "SNL."