In Space No One Can Hear You Menstruate

The most women at once blasted off into space today. They had to train at NASA for a few weeks to make sure their cycles synchronized in time for the launch.

In some sort of bizarre experiment NASA decided to send up as many space bitches at once as possible. And judging by the picture, its one of each. From the Times here:

In the finest display of extraterrestrial girl power to date, four women astronauts are preparing to rendezvous in space nearly 50 years after the Soviet Union put the first woman into orbit.

The $100 billion (£66 billion) International Space Station (ISS) is to host the biggest non-Earth gathering of women, with one arriving on board a Russian Soyuz capsule yesterday and three more due to join her this week.

It will be one of the shuttle fleet’s last voyages. Only three more are scheduled after this, during which construction of the ISS must be completed and spares vital to its long-term operations stockpiled on board.

A replacement manned space programme known as Constellation has been cancelled by President Obama, leaving Nasa’s aspirations for human space flight uncertain. The President will elaborate on his vision for American space exploration during an address to Nasa workers in Florida next week.

Thank God Obama is putting an end to this space silliness. I guess the ISS will just rot up there.