SpaceShipOne Cockpit

A recent post on Gizmodo showed the inside of the amazing SpaceShipOne. Inside it is a little different from the highly cluttered and extremely technical Space Shuttle cockpit with a single screen, joystick, GPS device and to my surprise a Fisher Scientific Timer (circled in red). Now for one this looks a little ghetto, you’d think you’d have something a little more advanced than your average crappy digital timer, but the thing that really got me is that I use that exact timer in the lab! I really hope it’s not doing something critical, don’t get me wrong it’s great for timing experiments and telling me when to go to lunch, but I wouldn’t trust my life to it!

Hit the read link for a photo of said timer sitting on my lab bench.

Lab timer