What is SpaceX Dragon's secret cargo?

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[bridainep, reg reporter]

What is SpaceX Dragon's secret cargo?

SpaceX has hinted that the Dragon cargoship that's due to blast off to the International Space Station on May 19 to make history as the first commercial craft to dock with the ISS could be carrying a secret payload. The last time a Dragon had a secret cargo, it was a round of cheese in homage to Monty Python.

So what do we reckon it is this time? A can of Spam? Two halves of a coconut? Something not Python-related?

[JetSetJim]

Re: What is SpaceX Dragon's secret cargo?

A dead parrot

[NomNomNom]

Re: What is SpaceX Dragon's secret cargo?

why a dead one? what the hell would be the point of that?

[Alister]

@NomNomNom

Whoooosh!

What was that??

Oh, just a Monty Python reference passing overhead...

[sisk]

Re: What is SpaceX Dragon's secret cargo?

"A dead parrot"

It's not dead. It's just resting.

[ravenviz]

Re: What is SpaceX Dragon's secret cargo?

A Welsh tart!

[Swarthy]

Re: What is SpaceX Dragon's secret cargo?(@ ravenviz)

But it's not rated for human passengers yet. And women of negotiable morality are still human.

...Even if they are Welsh.

[Michael H.F. Wilkinson]

A few bottles of Château de Chasselas from the four Yorkshiremen? To wash down the spam?

[Sir Runcible Spoon]

Sir

Replacement Fleshlights.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Sir

eurgh! - especially in zero G...

[Sir Runcible Spoon]

Re: Sir

I think it would be worse without them :P

[Parax]

Space Cheese...

Surely in homage to Wallace and Grommet it'll be a fine chunk of moon Wensleydale.

It'd make me truckle, if the first thing that astronauts found inside was a big space cheese.

[Peter Storm]

Pies and fags.

It's pies and fags. Almost definitely.

[SimonM]

Secret Cargo

An Olympic Torch maybe?

[Anonymous Coward]

Hugo Drax

[JayB]

Or...

The Holy Hand grenade of Antioch.... just to annoy Dept of Homeland Psychosis, I mean Security.

[sisk]

Re: Or...

Surely they'd need to sent a bunny so that the astronauts would have a reason to use said Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.

[Kirstian K]

Please

Let it be Jedward.....!

once there, jetison... Yay..!

[Colin Miller]

Cod lukfisk. Just make sure you don't open the case within 100km of civilisation.

[NomNomNom]

or put the cube in the cube

[NomNomNom]

Could it be parachutes? maybe NASA have found out a giant asteroid is heading towards earth like in that movie about a giant asteroid heading towards earth. So NASA sends up parachutes to the space station crew so that they can jump to safety but don't warn the rest of us back here on Earth. Typical. Remind me I seem to have forgotten - what IS the point of NASA again? Why are we paying them when they don't warn us?

[Anonymous Coward]

Think sideways

It might be a tribute to another comedy group like The Goodies. Probably not enough room for a giant pussy so maybe a flat cap and black pudding.

[NomNomNom]

Re: Think sideways

It was YOU who down-voted all my comments wasn't it? DONT DENY IT. It MUST have been you because you posted a comment RIGHT AFTER MINE. Did you think you could get away with?! You didn't EVEN HAVE THE COMMON DECENCY TO EXPLAIN WHY YOU VOTED ME DOWN TIME AND TIME AGAIN.

good point about The Goodies, they were funny and yet have been largely under-acknowledged so a tribute to them would be about time. If they go with the black-pudding as you suggest it might create a new record too because I suspect it would be the first black pudding ever to be sent into space, possibly even the first cooked breakfast food.

[OzBob]

Re: Think sideways

if someone is going to fall victim to the martial art of "Ecky-Thump" on the ISS, the pool of "usual suspects" will be fairly limited. (But Hitchcock would have made it work)

[Michael H.F. Wilkinson]

Re: Think sideways

Tribute to the Goodies? Like a trandem (three-seater bike) as replacement for the three-man Soyuz capsule

[ravenviz]

Re: Think sideways

Or those plastic Ketchup dispensers shaped like a tomato!

[Sargs]

SpaceX's articles of incorporation

...and Elon Musk's citizenship.

It's been a tax dodge aaaallll alonng.

[Anonymous Coward]

The worst would be

Layoff and notice of closure of the space station project?

[foo_bar_baz]

http://www.urthecast.com/

[Magnus_Pym]

Not a sealed tin of Spam.

Not in a low pressure environment anyway. Maybe some trout and a salmon to do the Fish Slapping Dance on a space walk.

[Rabbi]

It won't be spam

"Spam in a can" has already been to space - that's how early Mercury astronauts were described, due to being passengers in largely-automated capsules.

Plus, Space-X want to get some real humans up there soon. I'm sure they don't want us thinking about spam in a can then.

[VeganVegan]

Re: It won't be spam

Sardines, perhaps?

(What? No fish icon? What the fish will have to do!)

[lawndart]

hmm

Remember Lester saying he had a much more powerful rocket for Vulture 2?

[4ecks]

My guess...

Several pints of Bitter, a few packets of salted peanuts, and most important of all - a good towel.

You should never leave your home (planet) without your towel, especially if you might meet a ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal.

[rpics]

Re: My guess...

Or Vogon poetry?

[Old Painless]

A toolkit,some sticky tape...

....and some secret instructions on how to build a REAL spaceship

[Euripides Pants]

A penguin on top of the telly...

[Anonymous Coward]

Surely

Surely it is Vegemite (from Australia)

[Wolven]

or more simply

an homage to el reg and send up a playmonaut. After all the ISS is lacking in that department.

[richardcox13]

Re: or more simply

Surely THE playmonaut.

Launch currently on Nasa TV: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

[Blofeld's Cat]

Who knows...

Let me see: new spaceship... mysterious secret cargo...

It's got to be Daleks. It's always Daleks.

[TeeCee]

Aha!

Maybe they've managed to find that crate with the Ark of the Covenant in it.

[Anonymous Coward]

Spoiler

The ashes of James Doohan (Scotty from Star Trek) and Mercury Astronaut Gordo Cooper (and 298 other persons). What do I win?

[Richard Gadsden]

A playmonaut

What else?