SpaceX Tesla Dragon Spaceship Astronaut Father Same Toy Dinosaur Doll Flash Doll

Astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley had some company on their historic flight to space today: a stuffed dinosaur tucked into one of the seats on SpaceXs Crew Dragon. Behnken and Hurley each have a son and both boys are dinosaur enthusiasts. Before the flight the boys gathered all their dinosaur toys together and Tremor a sparkly apatosaurus was selected to accompany Behnken and Hurley to space. That was a super cool thing for us to get a chance to do for both of our sons who I hope are super excited to see their toys floating around with us on board Behnken said during an tour of the capsule in orbit. Im sure they would rather be here given the opp Manufactured by . The toy was spotted during preparations for launch on Wednesday and Saturday and geophysicist Mika McKinnon quickly identified it on Twitter as a TY Flippables Tremor Dinosaur. Toys like this have flown with astronauts and cosmonauts for years. When the toy starts floating it indicates to the buckled-in passengers that theyve reached zero-g and are experiencing weightlessness. A plush Earth flew on the uncrewed test flight of Crew Dragon to the ISS back in March 2019. Just before launch SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted a picture calling the plush a super high tech zero-g indicator. A cute stuffed dinosaur hitched a ride on SpaceXs historic launch The stuffed animal is part of a storied tradition of toys in space