Uh-oh. Did P. Z. Myers see the name of the commanding officer of the space shuttle Atlantis on the current flight, STS-132?
Short press release from NASA:
Sun, 16 May 2010 06:48:08 -0500
Commander Ken Ham [emphasis added] and the crew of Atlantis performed the Terminal Initiation burn at 7:40 a.m. EDT, firing the left Orbital Maneuvering System engine for nine seconds to place the shuttle on the final path for its 10:27 a.m. docking to the International Space Station. When Atlantis is about 600 feet from the station, Ham will maneuver Atlantis through a backflip rotation to expose the heat shield to station crew members who will use digital cameras to photograph Atlantis’ upper and lower surfaces through windows of the Zvezda Service Module. Oleg Kotov will use a 400mm lens, and T.J. Creamer, Soichi Noguchi and Tracy Caldwell Dyson all will use 800mm lenses. The photos will be transmitted to Mission Control for evaluation by imagery experts and mission managers to determine whether the heat shield sustained any damaged during launch.
Not only is it not the same Ken Ham, I’ll wager they are completely unrelated, and that they’ve never met. I wonder how the astronaut lives with people confusing him with the Ken Ham of the creationism cult. Perhaps creationists stray into the real process of space exploration so rarely that no one has made the connection yet.
. . . this Ken Ham, who doesn't "believe" in much of the science that gets the other Ken Ham into orbit.
This Ken Ham, the astronaut (NASA photo), is not to be confused with . . .
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub 
Ed,
I am just relieved no one has confused him with the first “Ham” in space…”Ham the astrochimp”. That said, I bet Ken gets lots of ribbing from his NASA compatriots.
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