The luck of the straw🥤 This #AANHPI Heritage Month, we pay homage to NASAJohnson Space Center engineer John Hirasaski, who had the opportunity to spend three weeks quarantining with the Apollo 11 crew after the Moon-landing mission. “I just happened to draw the short straw. Literally, it’s, ‘Hey, how do we do this?’ You know, everybody wanted to do it, because to be a part of an event like that, it’s just really great. But at the same time, I didn’t feel it would be appropriate to say, ‘Well, I’m going to be first,’ because why should I be first? So we did that, we just drew straws.” Hirasaki spent three weeks quarantining with the Apollo 11 crew, where he deactivated and decontaminated the Command Module. He was one of the first to see the precious lunar samples and tried his hand at cooking with a microwave (cutting-edge tech for 1969!) during isolation. Part of his other duties as assigned included opening the hatch to photo document the condition of the spacecraft, which ...