Comic-Con 2009: Coolest Comic-Con Tattoo—Real-Life Space Heroes

SciNoFi guest-blogger Susan Karlin got a quick photo of this tattoo on the arm of Comic-Con treasurer (and creator of the Comic-Con iPhone app [link redirects to iTunes store]) Mark Yturralde. Yturralde is such a NASA fan that he has created a permanent shrine on his right arm to all the astronauts who gave their lives for the space program. (The astronauts are grouped into the three fatal American space missions: Apollo 1, Challenger, and Columbia.) He says, “I’m hoping there won’t be anymore deaths. So I purposely spaced out the names so there wouldn’t be enough room to add more.”

For any curious readers of the Loom, we’re already checking with Yturralde if he wouldn’t mind if we submit a pic of his tattoo to Carl’s Science Tattoo Emporium.

July 28th, 2009 Tags: Comic-con, NASA, Susan Karlin, tattoo
by Amos Zeeberg (Discover Web Editor) in Space Flight | 4 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

4 Responses to “Comic-Con 2009: Coolest Comic-Con Tattoo—Real-Life Space Heroes”

1. MoonLady Says:
July 28th, 2009 at 5:24 pm

Wow, that’s amazing! does or has Yturralde worked in the space program?
2. garth Says:
July 30th, 2009 at 12:32 pm

Wow, that’s awesome Mark.
3. What Do These Names Have In Common? [Science Tattoo] | The Loom | Discover Magazine Says:
August 9th, 2009 at 11:39 am

[...] I saw this tattoo over on a sibling blog, Science Not Fiction, I knew it had to join the emporium. Its owner, Mark Yturralde, sent me this description of its [...]
4. Eveifna79 Says:
August 31st, 2009 at 4:42 pm

Nice post. What’s the source of this?

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