mccDec 16, 2022

Presenting: "Space Karen".

This is Karen Nyberg, who was a NASA astronaut from 1991 to 2020 and logged 180 days in space between 2008 and 2013. In 2013 while stationed on the ISS she sewed a stuffed dinosaur, believed to be the only stuffed animal ever manufactured in space, out of fabric scavenged from Roscosmos food containers and stuffing from a shredded T-shirt.

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Pictured: The stuffed dinosaur Karen Nyberg handmade in space, name unknown. https://www.space.com/22988-astronaut-sews-dinosaur-toy-space.html
'Made in Space!' Astronaut Sews Dinosaur Toy from Space Station Scraps

There is a dinosaur on the International Space made by NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg. See how she sewed the dinosaur toy in space here.

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@mcc knitting in zero gravity seems difficult
Dec 16, 2022 at 11:41pmWeb
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@BagheeraAltered You think so? I would have guessed that it would be a little more convenient because things stay where you put them instead of falling by gravity. It might help that the fabric seems to be a little bit rigid...
Show threadNobody In ParticularDec 17, 2022
@mcc @BagheeraAltered In a gravity environment, when you put things down, friction keeps them in place. In zero gravity, it's impossble to place things with exactly zero velocity, so they will slowly drift around, and you'll be forever coralling them back.