Posts: 441 From: San Jose, California, USA Registered: Mar 2002
posted 11-01-2016 12:47 PM
Out of about 50 kids trick-or-treating this year (2016), I had two kids dressed as astronauts. Both were sub-10 years old. One had a blue jumpsuit and the other an orange suit.
I praised both and gave them extra candy. Maybe someday the first person on Mars will say they were influenced by some guy who gave them extra candy at Halloween.
328KF Member
Posts: 1234 From: Registered: Apr 2008
posted 11-01-2016 07:01 PM
This young trick-or-treater in Houston had a totally unfair advantage in the costume department!
My daughter Charlotte wins Halloween this year!
p51 Member
Posts: 1642 From: Olympia, WA Registered: Sep 2011
posted 11-01-2016 07:48 PM
I actually broke out my NASA Nomex flight suit to wear while handing out candy, but we got no kids at the door this year, as in the town I live, everyone hits a large neighborhood. It was crummy weather, so everyone just went there and called it a night.
quote:Originally posted by 328KF: This young trick-or-treater in Houston had a totally unfair advantage in the costume department!
Wow, you can tell she's related to him, look at her face!
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 42981 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 10-30-2019 06:39 PM
Lunar Module (Charlie) and Astronaut (Ellie) Costume 2019, via imgur.
With the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, Charlie and I had been reading about the Apollo 11 mission and Neil Armstrong — and I cannot recommend the book "I am Neil Armstrong" highly enough. Charlie (age 5) is the lunar module itself, and her little sister Ellie (age 2) is an astronaut.
Charlie enters the costume by crawling underneath and there is a pair of shoulder straps that she uses to lift the entire costume. The costume looks heavier than it is — it's almost entirely made of foam and foamboard. The front hatch magnetically closes and magnetically stays open, and doubles as a candy sample input port. The ascent stage (top part) separates from the descent stage (bottom part with landing pads).
sts205cdr Member
Posts: 649 From: Sacramento, CA Registered: Jun 2001
posted 10-30-2019 07:44 PM
But astronauts aren't scary.
Jonnyed Member
Posts: 396 From: Dumfries, VA, USA Registered: Aug 2014
posted 11-01-2019 06:41 AM
Astronauts aren't scary? You should ask Bart Sibrel how scary astronauts can be. (Buzz Aldrin punch. Not that he didn't have it coming!)
BTW wouldn't it be cool if Charlotte was the first person on Mars?-- a generational connection to a previous astronaut would be poetry.
thisismills Member
Posts: 262 From: Michigan Registered: Mar 2012
posted 11-01-2019 09:30 AM
Out of ~350 kids that stopped by the house last night during trick-or-treat, 15 were astronauts. A mix of blue and orange flight suits and a few white space suits as well.
AstronautBrian Member
Posts: 287 From: Louisiana Registered: Jan 2006
posted 11-01-2019 10:56 AM
My five year-old nephew was an astronaut for trick or treat. He had an orange suit.
posted 11-01-2016 12:47 PM
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