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Included in the equipment making the trip into orbit is a treadmill named for comedian Stephen Colbert.

Earlier in the year, Colbert encouraged viewers of his program The Colbert Report to vote in an online contest to name a future space station room after him. Colbert won the contest but NASA instead chose to name the piece of exercise equipment after him.
Treadmill will slim 'chubby' astronauts: Colbert

Its full name is Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill and it will fly up in more than 100 pieces and won't be assembled until sometime next month.

Colbert could not attend the launch but said in a recorded message that he couldn't be prouder that his treadmill soon will be installed at the space station "to help finally slim down all those chubby astronauts.

"Let's face it, being weightless is mostly just a desperate bid to get away from that bathroom scale every morning," Colbert said.

"But you guys and gals are ambassadors to the universe. Don't make us look bad. Put down the astronaut ice cream, tubby. Tubby, tubby, two-by-four, couldn't fit through the air lock door."

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Its full name is Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill and it will fly up in more than 100 pieces and won't be assembled until sometime next month.

Ikea is a NASA contractor?

So that's what happened to the Challenger!  The assembly crew couldn't find the hex-key wrench and decided to tighten everything using pliers.