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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@mcc Karen Nyberg was the first astronaut I met, at a presentation talk by four of the STS-124 crew. Introduced by Capt Mark Kelly as "the brains of the crew".
Dec 17, 2022 at 3:44pmWeb
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@nikiw124 The only astronaut I've ever met was Edward Lu. I ganked the microwave from him. He was waiting to use a microwave, and I cut in line, and then afterward I saw him putting something in and I was like "oh no, he was waiting in line for the microwave and I didn't realize it". Later I found out he was an astronaut. That was the only time I've interacted with an astronaut
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@nikiw124 The most undignified thing about this already undignified interaction is the food which I ganked the microwave to heat was a "Banquet" pot pie from a line that was very shortly afterward recalled for salmonella