My Fox column is up, and it has a dumb error in it. Columbia is flying a Spacelab mission, not an ISS mission–Columbia is too heavy to get to ISS (another problem with the location…).

Thanks to Paul Henney for pointing out the error.

[Evening update]

Doh!^2

My ass has been fact checked twice more.

Columbia can get to ISS–I just meant that its payload is much reduced, relative to the other Orbiters, but I should have made that more clear.

And Ross Nordeen points out, correctly, that it’s a SpaceHab mission, not a SpaceLab mission. The latter, is, I believe, in retirement, but I don’t want to make any categorical statements, given my track record so far today…