What has one horn, two crewmates and shares a name with its ride into orbit?
"Calypso," the plush sequined narwhal that is flying with NASA astronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sunita "Suni" Williams on the crew flight test (CFT) of "Calypso," Boeing's CST-100 Starliner commercial spacecraft. A toy version of the deepest-diving marine mammal, it is soon to be the highest-flying example of its kind while serving as the crew's "zero-g indicator."
"My zero-g indicator happens to be a very sparkly narwhal whose name is 'Calypso,'" said Williams in a prelaunch interview with collectSPACE.com. "I'm excited about this little guy."
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