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Mike Pence ignores Nasa 'do not touch' sign BBC News US Vice-President Mike Pence has made a tongue-in-cheek apology to Nasa after a photo of him touching a piece of space flight equipment went viral. Mr Pence was visiting the Kennedy Space Center in Florida when he placed his hand on a piece of ... Pence on that viral NASA photo: Rubio dared meCNN What was Mike Pence touching at NASA and is it okay?The Verge Mike Pence Says He Touched NASA Equipment Because Marco Rubio Dared HimTIME USA TODAY -New York Magazine all 279 news articles »

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Somebody sound the Ted Cruz Comedy Alarm: Another prominent conservative figure has stumbled into the world of online attempts at humor. Vice President Mike Pence became the center of an internet comedy trend earlier this week, when a photo of him resolutely ignoring a Do Not Touch sign during a NASA tour began making the rounds. (NASA later let the VP off the hook for his daring burst of sign-defying naughtiness.)

Now, in an apparent effort to project an image of being laughed with, rather than at, Pence has joined in on the fun, claiming that Marco Rubiothat old goofster!dared him to do it. Amazingly, Pence then doubled-down, posting a Photoshopped image of himself engaging in some other dangerous touching:

And while were pretty sure this is actually the work of some vice-presidential intern, ordered to make their reproductive rights-hostile boss seem vaguely human, theres something amusing about imagining Pence putting the picture together himself:

Mother, he shouts, clicking away at the computer. Im doing it! Im meme-ing, just like the grandkids! Sounds sinful, comes the demurred response from the other room, and in his heart of hearts, Mike Pence knows his mother-wife is right. Still, he cant help himselfthe Lasso tool has him in its terrible grip. He cruises his way onto 4chan, new meme ideas bubbling into his brain. The era of vice-presidential shitposting has begun.

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From what we know about Vice President Mike Pence, hes not much of a risk-taker. More like a Boy Scout rule-follower to his absolute detriment, to the point where hes afraid to be alone in a room with a woman that hes not married to, and finds the Disney movie Mulan a bit too edgy.

So it was a shock to NASA, and the world, when on a visit to the Kennedy Space Center, Rebel Pence emerged. In flagrant disregard of what looks to be a message printed on a piece of white paper attached by a piece of yellow tape, the vice president clearly touched, with his unsullied hand, a piece of vague but certainly Critical Space Flight Hardware marked with a DO NOT TOUCH sign, confusingly in quotes.

A NASA source told The Verge that it looks like the vice president is touching the forward bay cover of the Orion capsule, which is exactly what it sounds like: the thing that goes over the forward bay Our source says the sign was probably there to minimize handling of the hardware. A quick cleaning of the surface and all is okay, he says.

That is an enormous relief, but our main takeaway from this now-global incident is that NASA needs much better signage.

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Its unusual for NASA to go viral, but thats what happened this morning: it was hard to avoid a photo of Vice President Mike Pence appearing to make first contact with a piece of NASA equipment that apparently wasnt supposed to be touched. It looks to be a covering for the Orion capsule, which NASA is building to take humans into deep space. Fortunately, touching it probably wont mess up future missions.

Heres the back story on the photo: yesterday, Pence visited NASAs Kennedy Space Center, where he gave a speech declaring that President Trump will make the space agency great again (but didnt say how hed do it). Pence then toured the campus facilities and stopped in the Orion clean room, where pieces of NASAs capsule are being assembled. During this tour, Pence decided to place his hand on a piece of Orion spaceflight hardware despite the fact that there was a sign attached to the article that read DO NOT TOUCH.

A photographer was on hand to snap the picture, and the internet was on hand to make the jokes.

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So what exactly is Pence touching? One source who works on Orion tells The Verge that the vice president is touching the titanium forward bay cover of the Orion capsule, which is exactly what it sounds like: the thing that goes over the forward bay. Thats on top of the capsule where the parachutes and other important hardware are kept. The forward bay cover is meant to keep this hardware safe from extreme environments during the mission to space. It is then jettisoned before landing just before the parachutes are deployed. Check out a test of this process below:

And while its probably best to respect the signs you see in a clean room, touching the cover doesnt seem like that big of a deal. NASA later confirmed what The Verge had already reported in a statement, that the do not touch signs are there just to minimize handling of the hardware. "Procedures require the hardware to be cleaned before tiles are bonded to the spacecraft, so touching the surface is okay, NASA said in a statement to The Verge. Otherwise, the hardware would have had a protective cover over it like the thermal heat shield, which was nearby."

Update July 7th, 3:45PM ET: This post has been updated to include a statement from NASA. Pence has since blamed this on peer pressure.

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To the editor: The headline, Vice President Mike Pence stays loyal to Trump, but it could come at a cost, should have read has come at a cost. Theres not a bigger phony in Washington right now than Vice President Mike Pence.

He touted his Christian values during the campaign and currently does so as vice president, and yet he defends a man whose morals sink below anything that Jesus would view as acceptable.

Pete Seat, an Indiana Republican Party official, is quoted as saying about Pence, He understands he has a job and his job is to be a loyal soldier. Yes, the vice president has decided who his commander in chief is, and its not Christ.

Pence should step down from the moral high ground and just show us who he truly is.

Steve Grimm, Fountain Valley

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To the editor: Your report tells how President Trumps initial Cabinet meeting afforded Pence an opportunity to showcase his role as Trumps preeminent cheerleader. With Pence providing the cue, that meeting quickly degenerated into a festival of sycophants gushing praise on their dear leader.

As shown in news outlet videos, Defense Secretary James Mattis, seated at Trumps left, appears to have been the sole Cabinet member made genuinely uncomfortable by this obscene spectacle.

If only an honest, honorable military veteran like Mattis, a retired Marine Corps general, were charged with providing adult supervision to this surreal administration. Trump obviously wont get that from Pence.

Mel Farber, Pacific Palisades

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