Talk about a ride.
An injured bat clung to the space shuttle Discovery’s external fuel tank during its launch Sunday.
He was spotted hanging on to the tank prior to liftoff and an analysis was done to determine if he could damage the heat shields if he banged into them during the launch. The NASA folks determined it would be safe to take off with the critter still on board and did so.
The astro-bat was still visible on the shuttle when it passed the tower on the way up.
The tiny critter likely didn’t last too long after that though.
Here’s more info on the bat’s shuttle ride into space.
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Sad…
Like a bat outta hell.
poor bat though, maybe it was not a bat at all, maybe it was an E.T trying to get back home.
Maybe not.
but could be.
Poor little bat. I read the story on CNN a few weeks ago. Poor little bastard, I swear.
If only we could have gotten George W. to do that…