It Was His Day Off. Then the Space Station Went for a Spin.
Zebulon Scoville and others at NASA’s mission control in Houston spent Thursday righting the International Space Station after a new Russian
nytimes.com
How the fuck did my space nerd ass miss this fucking story? The freaking ISS did a loop-de-loop by accident when a new Russian science module decided to fire its thrusters and tell ground control to go fuck itself. This dude just happened to be there on his day off and took over as flight director when a colleague had to go to a meeting.
The dude's name is ZEBULON SCOVILLE.
And this was his response:
Houston, can we get a big ole yeehaw for NASA and my boy ZEBULON from Space City?