I haven’t watched the Colbert Report on Comedy Central in a while (mostly during the writer’s strike last winter, and bits and pieces during the election stuff). But last night, I decided to watch it. Great as always (don’t know why I don’t watch everyday), and last night’s ‘Doom Bunker’ segment spoofing the ‘War Room’ on Fox News was downright hilarious (especially when the Transformers came into play, brilliant).

Anyway, the main point was encouraging viewers to continue to vote on the NASA site on a name for Node 3. They have about four that can be voted on (their narrowed down list), but also a field to submit another. Well, Stephen Colbert asks of us to fill in that field for ‘Colbert.’ So if you have free time, why not help NASA in the naming of a module for the Space Station that provides “a spectacular view of both their home planet and their home in space. The cupola’s six rectangular windows and one circular window overhead will show a panoramic view that will be unrivaled by any other spacecraft ever flown. Aside from providing a perfect location to observe and photograph the Earth, the cupola also will contain a robotics workstation, where astronauts will be able to control the station’s giant robotic arm.”

Right now, with the provided names, ‘Serenity,’ is number one with 86% (which I noticed after already submitting Colbert, and is possible geeky entry they probably don’t know of (Firefly everybody, the transport vessel name Serenity). Though, I find it interesting that ‘Enterprise’ isn’t higher on the submitted list, doubt NASA would be able to even do that if it won. Note, the names for Node 1 is ‘Unity,’ and Node 2 is ‘Harmony,’ so the lame names could end with us (Not that ‘Serenity’ is lame, though it is also a name of adult diapers, so…could be butt of jokes, especially after that whole astronaut traveling with adult diapers one thing that happened a while back, but sometimes may make an appearance in jokes.)

So, go to Colbert Nation to go onto the NASA page.

And reason why Colbert would be an appropriate name? Well, he did interview an astronaut on the International Space Station, so there is already NASA love. Check out the video for part 1 of the interview on YouTube: