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Sorry Sage ,but the winning name for the new space station module is not Serenity ,but Colbert.  I am still holding out for Death Star;( By Irene Klotz Irene Klotz – Mon Mar 30, 2:35 pm ET CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – NASA's outreach to the public to drum up interest in the International Space Station started innocently enough with an online contest to name the station's new living quarters. But Stephen Colbert, a comedian who poses as an ultra right-wing news commentator on cable television's Comedy Central, nosed into the act with a grass-roots appeal that has backed the staid U.S. space agency into a corner. The comedian's supporters cast 230,539 write-in votes to name the new module at the $100-billion space outpost "Colbert." The top NASA-suggested name, "Serenity," finished a distant second, more than 40,000 votes behind. Contest rules stipulate that the agency retains the right to basically do whatever...
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