RoundupReads New Pics! We’ve Got Spirit (Not Spirits) for NASA, Crew-1

New Pics! We’ve Got Spirit (Not Spirits) for NASA, Crew-1

by Catherine Ragin Williams | 2020-11-03

Nov. 3 update: Thank you to our spirited workforce, who sent in additional entries (directly below). 

Barry Tobias
Appreciating the dark humor of Barry Tobias' mask with his return to on-site work selfie. Well played!

Pumpkin entriesFrom left, submittals from Arden Robertson, Karl Heiman, and Jason Vos (carving credits to Brody Worrell).

Dragon decorationAshton Archer, presenting a creative decoration of “Dragon and Dragon.” 

Original article on Oct. 30: 

This Halloween, we’re celebrating a few big approaching milestones, as well as one recently past. On Oct. 19, we welcomed back a few hundred more NASA Johnson Space Center team members back on-site during Stage 2. A handful were kind enough to send us some selfies, below, showing them back to business on campus. Selfie galleryBig thanks to the selfie contributions of (clockwise, from top left) Alicia Baker, Daniel Palmer, Eric Kimball (inside the mud drum of the HRSG-2 at Building 24N), Sree Sreedhar, John Connolly, and Garland Bauch.  

Also happening is the celebration of 20 years of human habitation aboard the International Space Station and the upcoming launch of Crew-1, the first crew rotational flight of a U.S. commercial spacecraft with astronauts to the orbiting laboratory, slated for Nov. 14. In anticipation of those larger-than-life events, we asked — and you submitted — images of pumpkins you carved and crafted showing off NASA or Crew-1 flair. So, apparently, our Johnson team is not only talented at engineering human space exploration — we can also carve the meanest pumpkins around. (Too bad we can’t add those particular talents to our LinkedIn profiles!)

Without further ado: SPIRITED PUMPKINS.

Pumpkins
Different angles from Jenna Contenta's pumpkin submission.

Pumpkins
From left, spirited pumpkins by Andrew Rose, Connor Mitchell, and Heidi Theisen.

Pumpkins
A light and dark view of Cato Milder's Iron Man pumpkin, and Dillyn Mumme's submission (at right).

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Eric Schultz’s pumpkin creation of the Crew-1 patch, which he dubbed “Crew-1 Pumpkin Patch.” And, at right, the first SpaceX Dragon pumpkin he did in 2012. As Schultz said, “I enjoy working hard for a few hours in order to honor all of the hardworking people that make every mission a great success.”

Not all pumpkins are carved, and that's more than OK! Below, Susan Hanley's computer creation leaves us with a sentiment we can all cosign on:

Happy Halloween Pumpkin graphic.