Posted on 02/11/2011 2:32:57 AM PST by HushTX
Cairo, 10 Feb. (AKI) - The United States space agency NASA has okayed the naming of one of its spaceships after a young Egyptian woman killed in late January during an anti-goverment protest, according to Egyptian daily Al-Masry-al-Youm.
The paper quoted Essam Mohamed Haji, a young researcher at NASA as saying on Thursday he had received approval to put the young woman Sally Zahran's name on a spaceship heading for Mars.
Zahran, a 23 English graduated and translator died after she was beaten about the head on 28 January with a truncheons during clashes with security forces in in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Sohag. Anti-government protesters claim her killers were thugs in the pay of police.
“This is the least we could provide to Egyptian youth and revolutionaries. This step represents transferring the dreams of Egyptian youth from a small stretch of earth to the enormous expanse of space,” said Haji was cited as telling Al-Masri Al-Youm by phone from California.
Egypt on Thursday entered it 17th day of unrest, with many thousands of people taking to the streets in the capital, Cairo and filling its central Tahrir Square.
Doctors, bus drivers, lawyers and textile workers were on strike in Cairo on Thursday, with trade unions reporting walkouts and protests across the country.
The protesters have vowed to keep up their revolt against authoritarian president Hosni Mubarak, who they want to leave office immediately.
Around 300 people have been killed in clashes with security forces and over 1,400 have been injured since the unrest began on 25 January against Mubarak, who took power in 1981 and whom they blame for widespread poverty, corruption and police brutality.
Mubarak, a staunch ally of the west, has said he will not run for another presidential term in elections due in September, but the anti-government protesters want more rapid political and economic change.
He has come under increasing pressure from the US to speed the transition to democracy. CIA director Leon Panetta, in testimony before an intelligence committee of the US legislature on Thursday said there was "a strong likelihood that Mubarak will step down this evening."
State television interrupted all programming to present a message from the high council of the Egyptian armed forces that promised to to take "necessary measures to protect the nation," the military also said it would "support the legitimate demands of the people" and remain in "continuous session".
Obama will not speak out when Christians are slaughtered.
NASA takes at least 6 months to plan on taking a dump. No way they could decide on a name in under 18 days ...
There ya go ...
They do things very well, but they don’t do things very quickly.
a lot of money with little recent gain
You one of those “instant gratification” types ?
NASA has been the driving force in MOST of the technological innovations in our country, even in our world, for the last 50 years or so.
I support NASA keeping on doing what they do.
(I don’t support NASA doing what 0 wants out of them at the moment)
Why can’t we name the rocket, Alice?
“To the moon, Alice. To the moon.”
Neda Agha-Soltan.
They achieved great things in the past, then they lost lives on shuttles that didn’t even need to be manned anymore. Christie McAuliffe can now be remembered as the first teacher that died in a space shuttle accident; for what? She never even got into space (as though that had any meaning in the larger scheme of things - ask her children). We’ve now lost 2 of them, with little justification.
We should at least be able to hurl toxic waste into the sun with them in these empty cargo containers all over NJ, and have them return with holds brimming with moon-oil or something.
MASA
Our nation seems to no longer understand the difference between the words “victim” and “hero”.
With the Imam Obama-the UNDOCUMENTED Kenyan,
NASA’s sole goal is to give al Qaeda Orbital technology,
nuclear weapon payload tech, and to name all US
flights after famous al Qaeda operatives.
America is screwed by the DNC and their al Qaeda
and Ikhwan operatives.
Maybe they should name it the Ron Reagan...
No, they declared war on America when Jefferson was President. Never forget about the Barbary Wars.
“NASA has been the driving force in MOST of the technological innovations in our country, even in our world, for the last 50 years or so.”
Ok, I’ll bite. This is complete nonsense.
What has NASA done since 1970 that has been a “driving force”?
That’s exactly what I think we should be doing with toxic waste. The only problem is safety. You’ll have a lot of radiation spread out over a massive distance should a rocket fail and explode.
Well, if you want to split hairs, you can say that war was declared in 1095 for that matter.
The United States of America will come to nothing as long as the people in charge of her see that she is valueless in their sight. This Egyptian womans death is meaning less to me compared to the lives of soldiers who went into harms way on behalf of others and doing so in volunteer fashion. I resent this presidents lackluster performance and willingness to lower America at every turn. Of the thousands of American heros deserving the respect of such naming of a national assett we lose it to a political idiots dream.
Because obammy is reaching out to show the moosies he cares.
Obammy is a punk ass fool.
This fulfills NASA’s brave new mission to recognize muslim “contributions” to the space program — allahu ackbarack!
Whattya bet the ship carries a payload of korans on our $$$$$ to commemorate the event?
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