This collection of entries is from March 07, 2007.
No, not me...
Astronaut Lisa Nowak gets fired.
(My blog entry about this is here)
Because Nowak is a naval officer on assignment to NASA, rather than a NASA civil servant, she is not subject to administrative action by NASA
Nowak's firing marked the first time NASA has publicly dismissed an astronaut, said space historian Roger Launius of the Smithsonian Institution. She is also the first active astronaut to be charged with a felony, he said.
Turns out this is old news, but I just heard about this...
Back on the morning of March 1st, around 170 Swiss infantry soldiers - armed with their Swiss Army Knives and rifles (but no ammunition), while on a training exercise, wandered more than a mile across the unmarked border with the tiny principality of Liechtenstein.
OK, that's bad, and they turned around when they figured out what they did.
Here's some quick stats - Liechtenstein is only 62 square miles big. The last estimate of the population - 33,987. The Swiss army is 220,000 strong. Liechtenstein? No military.
I suppose that these guys shouldn't be confused with the Swiss Guard at the Vatican...
So, which is worse - that the Swiss invaded, or that nobody in Liechtenstein had even noticed the soldiers.