Astronaut Jedi Training?

Photo: NASA on The Commons/Flickr

You're looking at NASA astronauts Frank Borman, Neil Armstrong, John Young and Deke Slayton channeling Jedi knights, all dressed up in robes made from parachutes (which would keep them cool in the day and warm at night) during a desert survival training in Nevada back in 1964.

Very stylish! Link - via Kuriositas

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With the demise of manned space flights, they can always get jobs as Hari Krishnas.

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This picture reminds me of a scene in "capricorn one"...

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Yay recycling! (applauds) I want one too... :(

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Ok, recycling is way cool but also way cool is reading old NatGeo's.
ps: what is not cool is those stupid voice overs they do sometimes on their vehdayos.

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I can tell you from experience that it is nearly impossible to find a home for a collection of old National Geographics. My grandfather had nearly every issue going back to the late 1920s when he died. We tried to donate them to any library in the area that would take them to no avail. Now that you can get all of NatGeo on a couple DVDs having hundreds of pounds of paper taking up shelf space isn't very attractive.