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Vice President Mike Pence broke the rules during a tour of NASAs Kennedy Space Center on Thursday and the internet isnt ignoring it.

Mr. Pence was touring the facility with Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida Republican, when Reuters photographer Mike Brown captured the vice president blatantly disregarding a prominently displayed DO NOT TOUCH sign.

The image of Mr. Pence placing his hand on equipment labeled critical space flight hardware mere inches from the warning sign surfaced online late Thursday and instantly went viral.

The photograph exploded on internet forums like Reddit and 4Chan where visitors raced to make comical mock-ups of the image, and a tweet containing the original snapshot shared by Twitter user Mike Rundle on Thursday was retweeted nearly 9,000 times by Friday afternoon in addition to garnering hundreds of reactions.

New rule: you touch the spacecraft, you go with it, responded astrophysicist Katie Mack.

When youre a star they let you do it, tweeted space author Jason Major, a likely reference to Donald Trumps comment about grabbing womens genitals in a 2005 Access Hollywood tape that was leaked before last years presidential election.

Mr. Pence eventually joined in on the fun Friday afternoon, tweeting: Sorry @NASA@MarcoRubio dared me to do it!

It was OK to touch the surface, NASA responded moments later. Those are just day-to-day reminder signs. We were going to clean it anyway. It was an honor to host you!

Mr. Trump last week signed an executive order re-establishing the National Space Council and appointed Mr. Pence as its chairman.

Let us do what our nation has always done since its very founding and beyond: Weve pushed the boundaries on frontiers, not just of territory, but of knowledge, Mr. Pence told Kennedy Center employees Thursday, according to NASA. Weve blazed new trails, and weve astonished the world as weve boldly grasped our future without fear. From this Bridge to Space, our nation will return to the moon, and we will put American boots on the face of Mars.

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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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