TheFW » Astronaut http://thefw.com Funny Internet Videos - TheFW Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:05:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 NBC Reports the Tragic Passing of American Astronaut Neil Young http://thefw.com/neil-young-armstrong/ http://thefw.com/neil-young-armstrong/#comments Sun, 26 Aug 2012 18:15:54 +0000 Danny Gallagher http://thefw.com/?p=146958 No, that headline and photo aren't an error. It was, however, when they appeared on the NBC News website.

]]> http://thefw.com/neil-young-armstrong/feed/ 0 Darren Hauck, Getty Images NASA Has the Darndest Superstitions http://thefw.com/nasa-superstitions/ http://thefw.com/nasa-superstitions/#comments Sun, 12 Aug 2012 20:15:17 +0000 Danny Gallagher http://thefw.com/?p=143933 NASA astronauts might seem like atomic supermen, but they are still only human, with the same foibles and fears that the rest of us have. Just because they aren't screaming like little girls as the craft makes its re-entry doesn't mean they aren't screaming on the inside.

The best proof of this is NASA's protocol for space missions. In between the list of pre-launch requirements lies a longer list of quirky superstitions that the astronauts and the mission control team follow to the letter.

]]> http://thefw.com/nasa-superstitions/feed/ 0 NASA/Liaison/Getty Images Does a Yo-Yo Work in Space? An Astronaut Demonstrates http://thefw.com/does-a-yo-yo-work-in-space-an-astronaut-demonstrates/ http://thefw.com/does-a-yo-yo-work-in-space-an-astronaut-demonstrates/#comments Sun, 12 Aug 2012 15:00:13 +0000 Tom Blunt http://thefw.com/?p=143956 You might think that in zero gravity a yo-yo would be a totally worthless toy. Thanks to astronaut Don Pettit, currently orbiting Earth in the Internatinal Space Station, we get to see why it's actually a hundred times more fun.

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