Space shuttle does a 360!
Gnarly! Atlantis carries out a back flip before docking with the International Space Station.
This was to allow for NASA to see if the shuttle's heat shield had been damaged during take-off (it hadn't) and, I reckon, just to show off!
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Daniel Smith - a long time ago, in a galaxy far away just north of Watford, Daniel fancied himself as a scientist but turned out to be the worst scientist since that bloke who mapped out all those canals on Mars that turned out to be scratches on his telescope's lens. Luckily, he is now not working on the Large Hadron Collider inadvertently creating a black hole that would swallow the world but is safely behind a desk writing this blog, bringing you the fantastical underbelly of nature... weird science.
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