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Pocha Yari Rodriguez wants to live (and die?) on Mars (video)
California-born Yari Rodriguez wants to be a crew member on that one-way trip to Mars – but she’s scared.
For Smith College engineering grad Rodriguez, the most terrifying thing about a one-way trip to Mars isn’t a rocket malfunction, lack of oxygen, or the probability of death on Mars, she told Fox News Latino. It’s the cameras.
“It’s the scariest part about the whole mission,” Rodriguez, 27, said. “I’m really shy and nervous…I’ve been coming to terms with being on TV.”
Mas…Pocha Yari Rodriguez wants to live (and die?) on Mars (video)
Cutty Flam’s new Spanglish ‘Sugga’ has space rocks, explosions! (video)
SoCal pochos Cutty Flam say their music is the sound track to a 1950’s B-Movie starring Ritchie Valens opposite Betty Page directed by Quentin Tarantino. Señor Cutty sings and plays guitar, Ms. Bang Bangs kicks butt on vocals and drums and Chewy Lewy is the man on bass. In Sugga, a black and white home movie from the future, Cutty Flam saves themselves (or their body doubles) from a sky burst of meteorites with a white box of something that’s not wrapped in aluminum foil and doesn’t attract falling prop rocks. Also there is a greedy music promoter, a life support transfusion, a dead band member RIP, auditions, more aluminum foil and surf style guitar. We know — it’s everything you ever wanted in a music video. Plus Spanglish!
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Mas…Cutty Flam’s new Spanglish ‘Sugga’ has space rocks, explosions! (video)
Video: Before there was ‘Gravity,’ there was ‘Gravedad’ [1966]
Coincidence? Copyright violation? The blockbuster film Gravity – with Sandra Bullock and George Clooney – may not be as original as we’ve been led to believe. Check out the 1966 trailer for the Mexican movie Gravedad.
Dear Virgin Mary: What should I wear for Halloween? (photos)
Dear Blessed Virgin Mary:
What should I do for Halloween? Do you have any costume suggestions? I am out of ideas.
Unhappy Hyna in South Carolina
Dear Hyna:
South Carolina? Oh, Dios Mio, you have to get out of there pronto! But until you do, I think I can help you with some Halloween costume ideas. It’s one of my fave holidays — I put on my red pumps and go out and get a little crazy. Virgins just wanna have fun, tu sabes?
And I’ve worn a bunch of different costumes over the years, like this astronaut outfit in the pic. Or see if my other photos offer a look that’s right for you!
Your BV, Mary
Mas…Dear Virgin Mary: What should I wear for Halloween? (photos)
We found another space food video! ‘Un Petit plat pour l’Homme’
Since we’ve established that Americans and Canuckians eat burritos in outer espace, we asked our French astronaut friends what was cooking. “It’s a small plate for a man,” they replied. “Blanquette de veau.” [Video by Corentin Charron.]
Canadian astronaut makes peanut butter and honey burrito (video)
When you have no gravity but want a sammich on the International Space Station, what’s a hungry astronaut to do? Canuckian spaceman Chris Hadfield makes outer space burritos with peanut butter and honey.
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Mas…Canadian astronaut makes peanut butter and honey burrito (video)
And after Apollo 11? ‘Neil Armstrong: The Ohio Years’ (video)
After small-town Middle American Neil Armstrong returned from the Moon, life never was the same, even during The Ohio Years.
Reconquista Video Theatre Presents: ‘Burritos in Outer Espace!’
Astronaut Drew Feustel demonstrates how to assemble a burrito in zero-gravity outer espace. Yes, Georgia, Mexican food is the new American. And let us never forget Astronaut Jose Hernandez.
Ñewsweek: @Astro_Jose is A-OK, Zimmerman’s ‘Latinidad’ revoked
These were the big stories (plus Zimmerman’s 911 call, below) this week on POCHO:
Mas…Ñewsweek: @Astro_Jose is A-OK, Zimmerman’s ‘Latinidad’ revoked
GOP to José Hernández: Where’s your space certificate? *Updated
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*(SACRAMENTO) A judge ruled Thursday afternoon that Democratic candidate José Hernández can indeed call himself an “astronaut” on the official ballots for U.S. Congress, according to a late report from the California state capital.
(SACRAMENTO March 26) He’s a NASA veteran who has been to the International Space Station and back and here we have a photo of him in his pinche space suit, but GOP lawyers who oppose Democrat José Hernández’s bid for seat in the U.S. Congress are demanding he stop calling himself an “astronaut.”
Unless Californian Hernandez can prove he is still an astronaut, the lawyers say, he has to stop referring to himself using that title.
“Astronaut is not a title one carries for life,” Republican operatives asserted in a lawsuit filed in Sacramento County last week.
The suit notes that Hernandez did not make any money from NASA last year. From the Fresno Bee:
Mas…GOP to José Hernández: Where’s your space certificate? *Updated
Meet America’s first Latino astronaut: José Jiménez (audio video)
Just around the time actual Latino astronaut José Hernández was born, actor and comic Bill Dana (not a Latino) got famous playing José Jiménez, a sweet but dimwitted astronaut with a thick Latino accent.
It was the beginning of the Space Race and astronauts were America’s new heroes, but the very idea of a Chicano in space was a joke.
Mas…Meet America’s first Latino astronaut: José Jiménez (audio video)