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

[ahimsa_pdx@disabled.social]

@mcnees Great photo! It's the cover for his book, Chasing Space

Leland Melvin

Former NASA Astronaut, Leland Melvin, is the only person drafted into the National Football League, NFL, to have flown in space.

(www.lelandmelvin.com)

#Books #Bookstodon #Memoir #Space

[andoriansoup@mastodon.social]

@mcnees
I love this photo

[_thegeoff@mastodon.social]

@AndorianSoup @mcnees Earthrise, pale blue dot, happy dogs, first footprint, it's tricky to know which is the most fundamental human image.

Except it's the dogs. I have a theory that wolves domesticated us just as much as we domesticated them, hence we behave more like pack animals than apes somtimes.

[andoriansoup@mastodon.social]

@mcnees @_thegeoff
Oh absolutely. Have you looked into the eyes of a hungry Labrador while you're trying to eat dinner? That is intense domestication of humans right there

[_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. ​​