Awesome tweet today from Rogue NASA

[catbyte]

Link to tweet

[livetohike]

1. Great official pic! Thanks for posting this.

[leftynyc]

2. Thanks

I surely needed that. Smiles are hard to come by these days.

[LudwigPastorius]

3. That's a sirius picture.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. (Sirius being the Dog Star, of course, in the constellation Canis Major)

[LudwigPastorius]

13. Those dogs sure look like stars to me!

(...at least, Twitter stars)

[Augiedog]

4. Dog on the right looks like he getting his first prostate exam

[hibbing]

6. hahaha..thanks, bonus laugh for the thread!

[KittyWampus]

10. -WHAT-

[demmiblue]

5. I was about to post that!

Much, much better than the 'behaving' picture:

Link to tweet

This is a slightly fuller picture found on his wikipedia bio:

[Tommy_Carcetti]

7. "Can we come with you? Can we come with you? Please? Please? Please?"

"I want to come with you! I want to come with you! Let's go for a ride! Come on!"

[NBachers]

9. " Let me stick my head out the window! Let me stick my head out the window!"

[Skittles]

11. LOVE than man

[Duppers]

12. I know Leland!

My hubs worked with him and we've had lunch together. Couldn't meet a nicer person.

His pups are rescues, btw. And he has now retired from NASA.

[catbyte]

16. That's great. How could he be anything less than awesome with a pic like that?

And it's a bonus to know that they're rescues. Thanks!

[murielm99]

14. Those doggies are smiling.

I love it when doggies are smiling. Don't tell me that dogs don't smile.

[n2doc]

15. Happy Doggies Good Human n/t

[Watalapan]

17. Officer

And a gentleman

[lark]

18. Awww, what a fabulous picture!

The dog on the right looks almost identical (except Bud's face is white) to my old dog Bud.