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Mike Pence Says He Touched NASA Equipment Because Marco Rubio Dared Him
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By
Tessa Berenson
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with everything blurred but Rubio's face.
reminder,
including the one visible on the tita- nium Forward Bay Cover for the Orion spacecraft," NASA said in a statement provided to TIME. "Procedures require the hard- ware to be cleaned before tiles are bonded to the spacecraft, so touching the sur- face is okay. Otherwise, the hardware would have had a protec
Mike Pence just explained what made him touch the NASA equip- ment marked "DO NOT TOUCH": a dare from Florida Sen. Marco Rubio.
Rubio responded on Twitter, joking that he warned Pence not to break the equipment.
"Sorry @NASA... @MarcoRubio dared me to do it!" the Vice President tweeted Friday afternoon, accom- panied by the now meme-famous
But NASA says there's no apology necessary for the incident at the Kennedy Space Center Thursday. "The ‘do not touch’ signs are there as a day-to-day
tive cover over it like the thermal
explanation came after the image had been circulat- ing online for hours as
shopped
it into different backdrops. Pence even tweeted out one of the doc- tored images:
heat shield, which was nearby.”
Pence's joking
people photo-