Close to Home by John McPherson for May 29, 2020

Should have used a hide-a-key stuck on the bottom of the spacecraft.

You shouldn’t have ticked that third astronaut off. Tell her you’re sorry, and that you’ll never do it again.

That’s going to be quite a bill from the locksmith.

You left them in the rover. Turn off the headlights, too.

Inspired by true events :)

I think I’d rather walk home than get into that pile of junk! Lowest bidder probably built it!

OnStar, how may I help you?

At first I was thinking “Why would a lunar lander need a lock on the door,” and then I remembered: The lunar landing was filmed in a Hollywood sound stage, so obviously the producers were worried about the lander being stolen by a Mexican street gang.

Wow, this is about 50 years too late.

and a perfect place for bleeb!

It’s a Tesla. It’s Keyless. Call Elon for the code.

I Gotta Wonder, just Who or What are they Locking Out ? :-)

“Open the pod bay doors, HAL!”…”Whoooo issssss itttttt?”

“Penny•••Penny•••Penny!”

What the heck. We they afraid someone was going to steal the dang thing? Get a capsule alarm. “Step away from the car.”

“Houston, we have a problem”…

Whadda ya mean, you left the spare set in your other uniform?

It almost happened.

So, here’s a question, why is he knocking on the door? Whom does he expect to answer?

“The spare keys? Oh, they’re quite safe. They’re stuffed into the bottom of a half-filled jar of caustic cleanser, in the cupboard in an unused bathroom in the locked basement of a shuttered bioresearch building out in the Arizona desert, behind a barbed-wire fence that says ‘Danger! Beware of the Lepus!’”

Why would you lock it?

Good Luck to our Spacemen tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

Who would you think could steal it?

Haven’t most of us locked ourselves our of the house or car at some point in life? Still feel embarrassed?

I think I see it floating towards earth….

OMG my husband loses his keys (and other things) all the time! He’s the quintessential absent-minded nuclear physicist, who just today locked himself out of the house AGAIN! Glad he wasn’t a lunar astronaut, because this would be factual.

Actual Apollo 11 conversation:109:41:28 Aldrin: Okay. Now I want to back up and partially close the hatch. (Long Pause) Making sure not to lock it on my way out.109:41:53 Armstrong: (Laughs) A particularly good thought.

Im trying to figure out what are the things on the left and right rocket engines?

I remember a book of space-related comics/cartoons I had long ago with one like this - I think they were space-walking- and the one is saying “Key? I thought YOU had the key…”

NASA engineers are smarter than that. It would take Elon Musk to fuque up a door design that much.

Oh, wait here they are in my pocket of my flight suit…inside my spacesuit…

Maybe it’s the Florida Keys they need to get in.