Surprised Astronauts (Funny Pics)

"QUANTUM SHOT" #559
Link - by A. Abrams

"My God, it's full of stars!"

Allen Steele once wrote a book "Rude Astronauts". Well, today we have a short and sweet page called "Surprised Astronauts" - maybe somebody will write a book around it, too.

Surprised by what? We can only guess... Nanobot swarms, aliens with indigestion, invincible totalitarian spies, or inept blondes in spacesuits, you fill the blanks.

Don Knotts in "The Reluctant Astronaut" (1967) presents the classic "oh no" expression:

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This article title says it all: "Boomerang works in space, says astronaut" -

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Astronaut Takao Doi threw a boomerang and saw it come back - "I was very surprised and moved to see that it flew the same way it does on Earth," he says

Practice makes perfect (should be no surprises here) - photos from 1952:

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Russian cosmonaut training:

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Ready for take-off:

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Displaced astronauts:
On a beach (Cottosloe Beach, Perth, Australia) -

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... in Edinburgh, in strange company -

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Nasty surprise -

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This is not where you attach the umbilical cord for spacewalks! -
(we are not sure what's going on in painting on the right, original unknown)

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Spacesuit for a dog (concept, Russian space program) -

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We obviously have to include a classic shot of surprised, awed, mesmerized, and humbled astronaut - Dave Bowman (played by Keir Dullea) in "2001: A Space Odyssey" - seeing mind-boggling existential vistas:

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Attacked!

Art by Douglas Fraser

"The Tragic Death of a Spaceman", one of many -

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This fate is even worse:

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Fallen victim to love triangle... this story is beyond bizarre:

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Astronaut sculptures are not safe either. This one got attacked by coat hangers:

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Sidetracked by politics... Fidel Castro and Yuri Gagarin:

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Astronauts and Cute Girls: for good luck charm, of course

Old advertisers knew a good thing when they saw it. We "grok" it, too.

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A touch of luck for the Apollo 10 crew - more info:

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From Playpus to Zombie to Astronaut - in one simple cheat-sheet, "choose your monster" chart

Created by "Creebobby" Jacob Borshard, this is an indispensable tool for coming up with comic super-heroes, space villains or imbeciles: