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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FULL DISCLOSURE: The above posts initially inaccurately described the stuffed dinosaur as "knitted". It is, obviously as you can see from the photograph, sewn. I have corrected this with the Mastodon "edit" feature.
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@mcc it's handy isn't it!

I read your first post, scrolled down and read this one. Scrolled back up an it had changed. And it shows the editing time.

Dec 17, 2022 at 12:04amWeb