the crew decided to record a parody of those bad 80s sitcom intros where everyone turns and smiles at the camera

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Astronauts are so funny man. Here's just a couple of things I've found hilarious from this past week of space
• It's probably already been spread around here enough already, but in case anyone's missed it; 7 hours after launch, commander Reid Wiseman, dealing with tech issues, uttered the generational quote "I have two Microsoft Outlooks and neither one of those are working."
• After fixing the issues that were afflicting the onboard toilet, mission specialist Christina Koch (who has quickly become my favourite of the four) laughingly said “I’m the space plumber, I’m proud to call myself the space plumber.”
• On Easter Sunday, the Artemis II crew hosted a makeshift egg hunt, by hiding packets of dehydrated scrambled eggs around their Orion capsule.
•The way the crew always makes sure to make it very clear they're in space when doing interviews. From stuff like Wiseman just hanging out floating sideways on screen or Koch letting her hair loose so it can freely span out flowing around her. • While in transit, the crew decided to record a parody of those bad 80s sitcom intros where everyone turns and smiles at the camera.
• When the crew reached the furthest point from Earth in the mission, they jokingly clambored over each other in an effort to get to the far side of the capsule, so that they could individually claim to be the furthest person from earth.
• At the same time, on the ISS which was at the time on the other side of earth, the 7 astronauts onboard had a light-hearted race to the far side of the station, making jokes about being the furthest humans from Artemis.
• On the way back to earth, NASA actually managed to establish an audio call between the crews of the ISS and Artemis II (where they shared the above info), and Koch called one member of the ISS crew, Jessica Meir, her "astro-sister" as the two of them previously spacewalker together in 2019. Meir then responded I'm so happy that we are back in space together, even if we are a few miles apart" (a few here being 230,000).
• While Jeremy Hansen was doing an interview, Wiseman and Koch were just in the background swatting the mission mascot (a little moon plush toy named Rise) back and forth between each other.

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buncha fucken nerds up there

That's fun stuff. Astronauts are cool.

Big honerable mention to the interview with Trump where they pretended to lose connection. (It's not a coincidence they named the capsule Integrity)

No honorable mention to the floating Nutella jar?

I'm gonna need a link to that '80s sitcom intro video.

Reid Weisman remembered for: [] going to space [x] logging an IT ticket with not enough detail

Turns out Mark Watney jokingly calling himself a space pirate¹, bragging about having colonised Mars, and the like, was one of the most realistic things in The Martian.

1. In the book. In the film he never lost communication with Earth after reactivating Pathfinder, so he had permission to commandeer the Ares IV MAV, and it wasn't an act of piracy.

Wait they fixed the toilet? No Charlie browns? Noooooo.

Also I like that Koch fixed it. That's an historied name in butt science.

I see it like submariners getting the best food and pay in a navy. The moment you pay attention to your environment or consider the hope of rescue, you're the most vulnerable human alive. You're in a bathtub at the top of a burning skyscraper and all the forces of nature want to kill you instantly if a single component fails. If I couldn't distract myself with jokes, it'd be like emergency medicine or leftist politics where the reality is horrifying beyond comprehension. I'd last like a week in space before I'm kissing soil for being safe.

I mean, while probably not everything of that was planned, those missions, interviews and streams also serve as PR. So it doesn't surprise me when there are things like this happening AND "allowed" to occur.

Also it's quite a different team building and "work athmosphere" needed here, if you do not only see your colleagues a few hours per day, but spend quite a while together.

Boredom. Thats the answer. You dont get to take a whole lot with you up there and you will be surprised what your brain does with the free time... Like decide to shoot a sitcom intro.

Well, you need to keep the spirit up somehow living in a 9 m3 module together for 10 days, I guess. Also yes, lots of respect for that!

• What's that crater called?

Look at these DEI hires making history. How dare they ruin the narrative.

My favorite is the Janeway reference

I've found that folks in high stress jobs often develop peculiar senses of humor. Also a lot of astronauts are ex-military and we also have some unique humor.