
But you go back to the drawing board and tweak your designs until you find one that works. Often your initial designs will fall and crash as they struggle to fly free of Kerbin’s gravity. In KSP, designing spacecraft that will carry your Kerbonauts to orbit and beyond is no easy task. If you’ve ever played Kerbal Space Program, you have a sense of why it was so fitting Boeing decided to send Jeb to space. Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin took a small doll with him on the first-ever human spaceflight, and ever since it has become a tradition for most space crews to carry plush toys with them to make it easy to see when they've entered a microgravity environment.


Jeb, as he’s better known by the KSP community, served as the flight’s zero-g indicator. Floating next to Orbital Flight Test-2’s seated test dummy was a plush toy representing Jebediah Kerman, one of four original “Kerbonauts” featured in Kerbal Space Program. When the crew of the ISS opened the hatch to Starliner, they found a surprise inside the spacecraft.

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