“06880”‘s tagline is “Where Westport meets the world.”
After this week’s news from NASA — and thinking about our own Saugatuck hair salon — we might change it to “Where Westport meets the Kuiper Belt.”
(Hat tip: Matthew Mandell)
“06880”‘s tagline is “Where Westport meets the world.”
After this week’s news from NASA — and thinking about our own Saugatuck hair salon — we might change it to “Where Westport meets the Kuiper Belt.”
(Hat tip: Matthew Mandell)
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What makes this weirder is the secondary nazi/skinhead connotations of this name as the birthplace of the aryan race. Odd choice for a hair salon name regardless of which one of the definitions you pick though.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/nasa-gives-its-mission-target-a-name-right-out-of-nazi-mythology_us_5c2cd728e4b05c88b704c484
Wow, now that is also weird!
I read that NASA will start to receive data and possible imagery within another week or so, and that the analysis and further clarification of that data will take a few months longer, give or take.
Should be interesting, and I am glad that the bullshit government shutdown didn’t affect the progress of NASA on this project too much.