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BugsyMcNug t1_j1mey1j wrote

What is great is that she had to plan for it. She knew shed be up there for christmas and she used up valuable personal space for those items. Im not hating. Im loving it. Not too many people plan to be fun these days.

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Secret_Detective3255 t1_j1mi5hq wrote

I think one of the astronauts somehow managed to smuggle a gorilla suit up there just to play a prank, which I find hilarious.

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smallaubergine t1_j1q4s8o wrote

There was no smuggling. Mark Kelly tried to send up the suit twice for his brother Scott Kelly. The crew on board the ISS didn't know about it ahead of time but that's not smuggling.

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Areljak t1_j1pwxw3 wrote

Which sadly let to NASA making such costumes part of their PR which takes away all the creativity of it.

Hell, I'm guessing this was organized in a similar way.

Scott Kelly wrote in Endurance about, at the end of the his year in space, having to take a while bunch of Fotos of him in the cupola with all sorts of different shirts on to essentially create PR pics for organisations he is associated with. IIRC he was in that mentioned gorilla clip on an earlier ISS mission of his.

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mrflippant t1_j1mivzf wrote

What, you don't always pack your "naughty" socks when going to space?

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msur t1_j1okx66 wrote

Peggy Whitson is a legend. 10 overall for most time spent in space, 9th longest single space mission duration, 2nd longest spaceflight by a woman, oldest woman to fly in space, most spacewalks by a woman, and first woman to head the Astronaut office for NASA. She was absolutely prepared for that flight.

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BugsyMcNug t1_j1ol340 wrote

That is bad ass, thanks for the information!

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weizXR t1_j1n29mr wrote

Duct Tape; Still a favorite 'universal fixer', even in space.

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Rubes27 t1_j1n0m29 wrote

When would they start the celebration? 2022-12-25 00:00:00 UTC?

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NNovis t1_j1nbc0s wrote

She's kinda doing the Sonic pose from Adventure

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ClitusLickus t1_j1oh2kp wrote

That's better than the Creation of Adam that came to mind for me. Turn it over with a emerald photoshopped in and she's doing Shadow's chaos control

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saladmunch2 t1_j1o4h7u wrote

What is in those brown canvas bags around the window to the left?

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danielravennest t1_j1qkvgb wrote

Looks like padding, or possibly camera bags. The structural frame of the Cupola can get pretty cold on the night part of the orbit, and they need lots of padding to stop body motion in zero-g. In the lower left I also see stitching and a bit of collar, so there may be a jacket too.

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MrNewReno t1_j1o21cp wrote

So are all those loose-hanging wires just for non-critical components? I see those giant ass strain relief elbows but some of the other wires don't seem to have them....seems like it would be relatively easy to pull something loose.

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BackRowRumour t1_j1o5xcp wrote

In before that bloke shows up to claim this isn't real.

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Aware-Reveal7950 t1_j1peklh wrote

Would be better if she wasn’t flipping me off

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flunkyclaus t1_j1py3cp wrote

First thing I saw. Second thing I saw was how happy she is to be flipping us off.

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CassandraVindicated t1_j1pyg77 wrote

Great idea to send this module up. NASA doesn't fuck around. They want happy astronauts.

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ChipNASA t1_j1nfdoq wrote

Houston throw in gang signs here just wanna know what the translation is

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HugeButtLover t1_j1mmj88 wrote

She joined the space mike high club. That face is dead giveaway.

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