Uploaded April 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
collectSPACE.com — What do you get when you cross a turtle with a chimp and send both into outer space? A whole lot of shenanigans.
Or at least that is the story behind the plush turtle and small monkey that launched with SpaceX's Crew-4 astronauts on Wednesday, April 27, 2022. Both dolls began to float when the Dragon spacecraft "Freedom" entered orbit, about nine minutes after leaving Earth and 16 hours before arriving at the International Space Station.
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Video credit: NASA/SpaceX
collectSPACE.com — What do you get when you cross a turtle with a chimp and send both into outer space? A whole lot of shenanigans.
Or at least that is the story behind the plush turtle and small monkey that launched with SpaceX's Crew-4 astronauts on Wednesday, April 27, 2022. Both dolls began to float when the Dragon spacecraft "Freedom" entered orbit, about nine minutes after leaving Earth and 16 hours before arriving at the International Space Station.
Continue reading: collectspace.com/news/news-042722a-spacex-crew4-zero-g-indicator-turtle-monkey.html
Video credit: NASA/SpaceX
![[STS-135 Flight Day Journal] Flight Day 8 Recap](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/g8Y9jyz_pO4/mqdefault.jpg "[STS-135 Flight Day Journal] Flight Day 8 Recap
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A video recap of flight day 8 of the STS-135 mission of space shuttle Atlantis to the International Space Station.
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