Astronaut, author, professional football player, and STEM educator Leland Melvin was born #OTD in 1964.
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Astronaut, author, professional football player, and STEM educator Leland Melvin was born #OTD in 1964.
Here he is in the greatest photo ever produced by the US space program.
Image: NASA
@mcnees
You may be right about the photo!
#NASA #DogsOfMastodon #DogsOfFedi -
Astronaut, author, professional football player, and STEM educator Leland Melvin was born #OTD in 1964.
Here he is in the greatest photo ever produced by the US space program.
Image: NASA
@mcnees
here is the greatest photoshop I have ever done of Leland Melvin on the moon with his dogs.
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Astronaut, author, professional football player, and STEM educator Leland Melvin was born #OTD in 1964.
Here he is in the greatest photo ever produced by the US space program.
Image: NASA
@mcnees you think those dogs are happy now, if they only new he was able to pee sooo high up

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Astronaut, author, professional football player, and STEM educator Leland Melvin was born #OTD in 1964.
Here he is in the greatest photo ever produced by the US space program.
Image: NASA
@mcnees Great photo! It's the cover for his book, Chasing Space
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Astronaut, author, professional football player, and STEM educator Leland Melvin was born #OTD in 1964.
Here he is in the greatest photo ever produced by the US space program.
Image: NASA
@mcnees
I love this photo
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@mcnees
I love this photo
@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.
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@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.
@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 -
@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@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.
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@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.
@mcnees @_thegeoff
Lol same. We had a Saluki/Retriever cross. That dog had more compassion than most humans (and ate everything in sight) -
Astronaut, author, professional football player, and STEM educator Leland Melvin was born #OTD in 1964.
Here he is in the greatest photo ever produced by the US space program.
Image: NASA
I met Leland Melvin once and he's exactly as chill and nerdy as his picture suggests.
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Astronaut, author, professional football player, and STEM educator Leland Melvin was born #OTD in 1964.
Here he is in the greatest photo ever produced by the US space program.
Image: NASA
@mcnees man I thought he died from the way you worded that
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@benroyce @mike805 @mcnees It's been tried in parabolic flights. @drskyskull has written a whole book on faΔΊling felines. https://youtu.be/O9XtK6R1QAk
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@benroyce @mike805 @mcnees It's been tried in parabolic flights. @drskyskull has written a whole book on faΔΊling felines. https://youtu.be/O9XtK6R1QAk
@_thegeoff @mike805 @mcnees @drskyskull
holy shit!

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Astronaut, author, professional football player, and STEM educator Leland Melvin was born #OTD in 1964.
Here he is in the greatest photo ever produced by the US space program.
Image: NASA
@mcnees He spoke at the Woman in Science conference in Malawi in 2017. I was lucky enough to get a photo.
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Astronaut, author, professional football player, and STEM educator Leland Melvin was born #OTD in 1964.
Here he is in the greatest photo ever produced by the US space program.
Image: NASA
@mcnees the greatest photo ever produced by the US space program.
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Astronaut, author, professional football player, and STEM educator Leland Melvin was born #OTD in 1964.
Here he is in the greatest photo ever produced by the US space program.
Image: NASA
@mcnees There's ALWAYS space for the pupsters.
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@mcnees
here is the greatest photoshop I have ever done of Leland Melvin on the moon with his dogs.
@mcnees im so glad this was popular. I had a lot of fun doing it. Dogs on the moon!!
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Astronaut, author, professional football player, and STEM educator Leland Melvin was born #OTD in 1964.
Here he is in the greatest photo ever produced by the US space program.
Image: NASA
@mcnees this rocks

