ISS room not to be named after Colbert

NASA has named its new ISS room 'Tranquillity', despite TV comedian Stephen Colbert's attempts to name the new Node 3 after himself. Astronaut Sunita L. Williams announced the news on 'The Colbert Report' show, saying that NASA is set to make a new Combined Operational Load-Bearing External Resistance Treadmill (COLBERT) as an important part of the International Space Station. "Your name will be in space in a very important place," Williams told Colbert on his TV show. "Everyday somebody will have to jump on the COLBERT." Comedian Stephen Colbert won an online NASA poll, held in March to name the new Node 3, which will be launched aboard the Endeavour space shuttle later this year and house life support equipment. The late-night comedian won the contest by urging viewers of his Comedy Central show, 'The Colbert Report', to write in his name, Reuters reported. This is not the first time that the comedian encourages his fans to enter the name Colbert in competitions. He urged his viewers to nominate his name for a bridge in Hungary, and to write him on the South Carolina presidential primary ballot. Colbert has so far been successful in putting his name on a peregrine falcon in California, a flavor of Ben and Jerry's ice cream and a Virgin Atlantic plane.