Stupid Astronaut Tricks! (Odd space traveler accomplishments)

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Okay, like it says in the title—I thought it’d be fun to start a list of odd or memorable things Astronauts (as well as Cosmo-, Spatio-, and Taiko- nauts) have accomplished, especially after traveling in space.

So far, I have ones who…

•Flew combat missions…after becoming an astronaut.
•Died—and were buried—on Mt. Everest.
•Worked as a pilot for Southwest Airlines—after retiring from NASA and the Navy.
•…and Richard Garriot, aka Lord British. Who’s father was also an astronaut, and returned to Earth with another second-generation cosmonaut.

Any other suggestions? (I can think of one or two, myself. Especially one of em. :wink: )

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Well, I know one who co-authored two articles with …me.
But that’s arguably not something for him to brag about.

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Borman now owns an auto dealership. (Been going to their service department for a decade, and they’ve only screwed me once. Pretty good record, for this part of the country.)

Which one was it, who became a Bible-thumper, and started searching for Noah’s Ark?

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James Irwin

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One odd accomplishment by Valentina Tereshkova, marrying another cosmonaut and giving birth to the first person to have both a mother and father who had traveled to space:

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Don’t know who it was, but there IS a story that someone did not like the view downstairs on the shuttle, so they did the reentry upstairs on the flight deck, standing up.:eek:

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That would have been Story Musgrave on STS-80, an astronaut that makes other astronauts look like slackers.

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Holy crap, Story Musgrave is the real-life Buckaroo Banzai!

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How about Lisa Nowak and her diapers?

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See? I knew we could get at least a few entries in before she would come up. :smiley:

She is not, however, on the lineup of the all-astronaut rock band “Max Q.”

(I checked, they’re not on iTunes)