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Topic: Hawaiian shirts (Aloha shirts) worn in space

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Message to Edit: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	Originally posted by Robert Pearlman on 09-22-2017 08:59 AM From Randy Bresnik on the International Space Station ([URL=https://twitter.com/AstroKomrade/status/911191244469977089]via Twitter[/URL]): <BLOCKQUOTE>[i]Our Earth is but an island in the cosmos. Expedition 53 crew is embracing the island lifestyle with our Space Station Hawaiians on Aloha Friday![/i]</BLOCKQUOTE> <center><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/review/iss53_hawaiianshirts01-lg.jpg" target="AirLock"><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/review/iss53_hawaiianshirts01.jpg" width="400" height="266" border="0"></a> <a href="http://www.collectspace.com/review/iss53_hawaiianshirts02-lg.jpg" target="AirLock"><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/review/iss53_hawaiianshirts02.jpg" width="400" height="275" border="0"></a></center> STS-26 commander Rick Hauck described the origin of his 1988 crew's Hawaiian shirts in a [URL=https://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/oral_histories/HauckFH/HauckFH_3-17-04.htm]NASA oral history[/URL]: <BLOCKQUOTE>[i]We were presented with these Hawaiian shirts by the people that did the overhaul and the preparations in the Orbital Processing Facility, the OPF, on Discovery, and the reason is that they — I don't know if it was once a week or once or month, I think it was once a week — they would wear colorful shirts in to work. They called them their loud shirts and they called themselves the "Loud and Proud" group. So we were made honorary members of the Loud and Proud group, and we said, "We're going to have to take these shirts up into space with us."[/i]</BLOCKQUOTE> <center><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/review/sts26_hawaiianshirts01-lg.jpg" target="AirLock"><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/review/sts26_hawaiianshirts01.jpg" width="400" height="267" border="0"></a> <a href="http://www.collectspace.com/review/sts26_hawaiianshirts02-lg.jpg" target="AirLock"><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/review/sts26_hawaiianshirts02.jpg" width="400" height="267" border="0"></a></center>
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