Latest twist in the BTS-1 tale
May. 18th, 2011 11:53 pmWhat's launched from Houston, tweeted at by a space-station astronaut, rescued from a swamp in Louisiana, and then lost in a warehouse in Tennessee?
Believe it or not, the BTS-1 capsule is lost again. After its retrieval in Louisiana on Friday it was sent back to Stanford via FedEx, supposed to arrive Monday, but it went into the Memphis depot on Saturday night and never came out. FedEx are looking for it -- they even Googled it, apparently -- but no luck so far. (Wouldn't it be nice if Google worked that way?) Unfortunately, the cameras and their data are still in the capsule. Don't ask me why they didn't pop out the memory cards and ship them separately, or upload them.
The heroic crew did find their way back to Stanford, presumably by a separate shipment.
At least the ongoing saga is getting more attention for the mission and its causes, though #BTS1 hasn't actually trended on Twitter yet that I know of.
Believe it or not, the BTS-1 capsule is lost again. After its retrieval in Louisiana on Friday it was sent back to Stanford via FedEx, supposed to arrive Monday, but it went into the Memphis depot on Saturday night and never came out. FedEx are looking for it -- they even Googled it, apparently -- but no luck so far. (Wouldn't it be nice if Google worked that way?) Unfortunately, the cameras and their data are still in the capsule. Don't ask me why they didn't pop out the memory cards and ship them separately, or upload them.
The heroic crew did find their way back to Stanford, presumably by a separate shipment.
At least the ongoing saga is getting more attention for the mission and its causes, though #BTS1 hasn't actually trended on Twitter yet that I know of.
