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“Hopefully we brought you guys some smiles and not a lot of nervousness”

UNAUTHORISED SPACEWALK

If you’re going to pull off a prank in space, do it in style, while wearing a pair of cool shades. In 2010, NASA astronaut Timothy Creamer, Japanese astronaut Sôichi Noguchi and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov beamed a snapshot of themselves floating in space back to Mission Control for an April Fool’s Day prank. “You have a real problem, but you know it’s outside our capability to help you,” astronaut Shannon Lucid radioed the station crew, laughing all the way.

The astronauts reassured Mission Control, claiming they were wearing

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