Astronaut, author, professional football player, and STEM educator Leland Melvin was born #OTD in 1964.

[_thegeoff@mastodon.social]

@AndorianSoup @mcnees I grew up, from a baby, with a lab/German shepherd cross (we think), it's possible that dog taught me more about interacting with humans than my parents did.

[andoriansoup@mastodon.social]

@mcnees @_thegeoff
Lol same. We had a Saluki/Retriever cross. That dog had more compassion than most humans (and ate everything in sight)

[nullagent@partyon.xyz]

I met Leland Melvin once and he's exactly as chill and nerdy as his picture suggests.

@mcnees

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@nf3xn @mike805 @mcnees

but didn't come back

[_thegeoff@mastodon.social]

@benroyce @mike805 @mcnees It's been tried in parabolic flights. @drskyskull has written a whole book on faĺling felines. https://youtu.be/O9XtK6R1QAk

[nf3xn@mastodon.social]

@benroyce @mike805 @mcnees at least they actually made it to micro-g unlike some...

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@_thegeoff @mike805 @mcnees @drskyskull

holy shit!

[astronot@mastodon.online]

@mcnees He spoke at the Woman in Science conference in Malawi in 2017. I was lucky enough to get a photo.

[mhtt@mastodon.social]

@mcnees the greatest photo ever produced by the US space program.

[alandvalonline@mastodon.social]

@mcnees There's ALWAYS space for the pupsters.

[crystal_fish_caves@mstdn.party]

@mcnees im so glad this was popular. I had a lot of fun doing it. Dogs on the moon!!

[jbaert@mastodon.social]

@mcnees this rocks

[c3manu@chaos.social]

@mcnees @clx

[random_industries@mastodon.social]

@mcnees what a happy man

[adilaour@mastodon.social]

@mcnees how you know the birth in 1967 was an On Time-Delivery? Imo very strange to focus on this fact almost 80years later…

[tengu@snug.moe]

@mcnees Good space doggos. ​​

[kevinrns@mstdn.social]

@mcnees

That is his Official astronaut photo. No other astronaut photo has good boys.

#dogs