In indubitable news, astronauts on board the International Space Station have launched a sit in for better wages and conditions. They are protesting the lack of due care and concern show by their NASA masters on Earth and are refusing to submit their hourly reports to Houston ground control.
One of the space residents, Joey Doolittle, complained that he has been in space for four months now and cannot see any justification for carrying on because NASA are only paying them the same rate of pay as that received by a luggage handler at Newark International Airport.
"Where's the fairness in that? I mean its a bit rude?" complained the seven space flight veteran. His four other Space Station companions voted to introduce "go slow" tactics a week ago and now believe that their industrial action has been worth it.
"NASA are starting to get the message" said mission commander Brian Stalin. Many of their fellow astronauts on terra firma have picketed the Houston headquarters since the strike started.
NB in breaking news NASA Management has launched a ICBM with a thermo nuclear warhead at the International Space Station and obliterated the craft, including the five astronauts on board.
Update: NASA has recovered part of the wrecked space station and hopes to use it as a door stop at its Houston headquarters.
