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NEW YORK — One small step for NASA, one giant flying leap for Stephen Colbert. NASA announced Tuesday that it won’t name a room in the international space station after the comedian. Instead, it has named a treadmill after him. NASA earlier held an online contest to name a station room. With write-in votes, the name “Colbert” won. On Tuesday’s “The Colbert Report” on Comedy Central, astronaut Sunita Williams announced that NASA opted for Tranquility, the eighth-most popular poll response. NASA and Colbert compromised by naming a treadmill used for exercising in space the Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill (COLBERT). The Associated Press
