Feathered Jihadi? Osama is training birds?
NASA released an image Tuesday night of space shuttle Discovery striking a bird seconds after Tuesday's launch, according to Local 6 News.
PETA must be enraged at NASA for allowing bird in a dangerous area...
"It happened just as Discovery was clearing the launch pad and it is too early to tell whether that strike caused any flight safety issues," Local 6 News reporter Mike DeForest said.
The image was captured by one of more than 100 cameras photographing every angle of Discovery's launch.
chirp - chirp - splat
"Without ever having seen these camera angles before, they don't know if debris has always shed off or if they had hit birds in the past," DeForest said. "This is their first glimpse and of course they will do inspections later this week to see if that caused any type of dangerous situation."
NASA officials are also analyzing video of a portion of Tuesday's shuttle launch "frame-by-frame" after one of several cameras aboard the craft captured what appeared to be pieces of debris separating from Discovery, according to Local 6 News.
"Mission managers spoke after the liftoff and said they had no idea what the debris was, whether it was foam or something else," Local 6 News reporter Donald Forbes said. "They had no idea where it came from. They said they are going to go over each frame of film and of tape to try to find out where it came from."
Local 6 News reported 107 high-definition still, video and film cameras were focused on the shuttle Tuesday.
Shuttle Columbia only had a few cameras in use and some were not working, according to the report.
I will hold my tongue on that one... Incompetent b.....ds
