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Originally Posted by KaiYeves
Although, that Home Improvement episode did make me realize just how many astronauts have really strange names. I guess it makes it easier for the press to remember your name.
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maybe they just come from strange families or strange areas, and thus the strange names..
i drive thru the home town of astronaut Karen Nyberg on a daily basis (Vining, MN pop. 65) and live in the town where she went to school (Henning, MN pop 750). her name might be "normal" and i don't know much about her or her family life, but her dad likes to make scrap iron statues which are displayed all over the town of Vining. these aren't normal statues- there is an alien holding up a flower next to an astronaut, a giant foot with a HUGE big toe, a life size elephant, and a bunch of other crazy stuff.. and i can say from experience that the people in general are a little bit "different" around here.
maybe the people that make the best astronauts all come from "weird" places like this, and as such, they grow up seeing things different than us "normal" people, which gives them some sort of an advantage for careers in zero g.