NASA names cosmic treadmill after Colbert

[derrian]

What do you do when you're NASA and comedian Stephen Colbert wins your contest to name the new wing for the International Space Station? You name an orbital exercise machine after him.<div class="feedflare">
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[Canada]

The beautiful thing about this is the astronauts will end up calling it "the Colbert room" because that's where the COLBERT (Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill) is.