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June 02 2007

Breaking Atmo: Here's how it is. The inside story on how Firefly and Serenity DVDs will be given to the crew of the International Space Station next week.

Fab stuff and kudos to The One True b!X for creating such a cool looking site.

Simon | Firefly&Serenity | 14:31 CET | 23 comments total | tags: firefly, serenity, international space station

That actually made me tear up, that copies of Serenity and Firefly are really going into space. Bite that, Fox :)

Shey | June 02, 14:39 CET

First off, Nicely done Maii. Your efforts will be part of Browncoat Lore forever. And a big Thanks to Bix for creating a Site to showcase this.

Here's to June 8th, and a Shiny launch for STS-117! :)

TDBrown | June 02, 15:29 CET

been following this story for ages------now a great looking site to follow up

thanks to all

rivergirl | June 02, 15:52 CET

This has made my day. This is kind of like back in 1976 when the Trekkies got NASA to name its first shuttle Enterprise.

Adamwankenobi | June 02, 16:08 CET

Aw, I was hoping Joss would take them up himself, riding into space on the back of Laika.

daylight | June 02, 16:57 CET

Yeah, and thereby they got Nasa to name a shuttle Enterprise who wasn't buildt for spaceflight. Not so cool.

Pumps | June 02, 17:01 CET

That's brilliant. Always knew Joss' talent was too big for one planet ;). Nice site too.

(and when the time comes to swap the DVDs out, i'd love them to flush one out of the airlock rather than bring it back down. Then we could say "Serenity's currently orbiting the Earth" whenever the topic came up. Which, with careful conversational nudging, would be a lot ;)

Saje | June 02, 17:11 CET

I'm reminded of this quotation from Objects in Space:

WASH: Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction.

ZOE: We live in a space ship, dear.

Gag Halfrunt | June 02, 17:34 CET

they got Nasa to name a shuttle Enterprise who wasn't buildt for spaceflight.

Actually, in the original plans, the shuttle that became Enterprise was designed as a flight vehicle, and Challenger was a test vehicle. Enterprise came in too heavy for spaceflight, though, and that caused the swap in roles.

Still waiting for a real spacecraft named Serenity. They say that once you've flown a firefly....

MissKittysMom | June 02, 17:52 CET

That actually made me tear up, that copies of Serenity and Firefly are really going into space. Bite that, Fox :)

Me too and I'm widely known for being dead inside. ;)

AuntArlene | June 02, 20:16 CET

Working at Nasa I can testify there are LOTS of browncoats among us :) Now if we could only have one of the new ORION spacecrafts named Serenity...

Yorick | June 02, 20:19 CET

Oh man, that's so cool. Great job, everyone involved :D

TychoCelchuuu | June 02, 21:02 CET

FYI, some people might still be getting nothing but the "Launching Soon" version of the site, with the linked item here coming up as "Page Not Found". I thought I'd waited long enough after moving this to a hosting service for the addressing changes to propagate around the net, but apaprently some people are still seeing the old one.

If you're one of those people, keep checking. Everything should catch up at some point over the course of the day today.

theonetruebix | June 02, 21:08 CET

That's awesome!

UnpluggedCrazy | June 02, 21:18 CET

So very very cool! Makes me feel a part of something grand.
(Even though I didn't have anything to do with it.) :-)

jcs | June 02, 21:45 CET

Thats excellent:)

angeliclestat | June 02, 22:41 CET

Coolest 'verse news in months.

April | June 03, 00:06 CET

Wow.....wicked awsome! :D

Trek_Girl42 | June 03, 00:31 CET

What Trek_Girl42 said. This is beyond cool.

questionabledude | June 03, 02:50 CET

FYI, since this site (unlike most of the others i've put up over the years) is actually hosted somewhere other than my home DSL, I'm probably going to put up a chat program linked to a channel on the Blitzed IRC server, in case people want to hang out on launch day.

theonetruebix | June 03, 02:57 CET

there is really nothing I love more than exploration, the hope of new discovery and in particular, the hope of space exploration. I love that the dvds went into space -- it definitely made me tear up!

CaffeinatedSquint | June 03, 05:45 CET

Shiny!

Godspeed!

Anonymous1 | June 03, 06:41 CET

Very Cool indeed!

RHurrey | June 03, 11:57 CET

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