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Saturday, December 11, 2010


Houston, we have cheese:
Before the successful launch, voyage, and recovery of SpaceX's Dragon Spacecraft, the first time in history a commercial company has recovered a spacecraft from orbit, reporters were buzzing with news of a "secret" payload, stowed on board.

It was a payload so secret, SpaceXers made it Top Secret (think Val Kilmer 1984, not official US Government).

Top Secret payload, bolted to the floor of the Dragon spacecraft.

So what was inside the mystery package? Their tribute to Monty Python.

A wheel of cheese.
I was not familiar with this sketch. But to all the nay-sayers that thought commercial space was impossible, here's your cheese:




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