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Rawwr! Astronaut creates a toy dinosaur from space station scraps

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NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg, who since May has been working as a flight engineer as a member of the orbiting outpost’s resident crew, revealed the toy dinosaur floating on the space station on Thursday.

“Made in space!” Nyberg, an Expedition 37 crew member, exclaimed in her caption for a photo of the toy giant lizard that she uploaded to the Pinterest photo-sharing website. “I made this dinosaur for my son last Sunday, September 22.”
via NBC News

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Image: Karen Nyberg / NASA via Pinterest

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