NASA Astronaut Leland Melvin Was Photographed With His Two Rescue Dogs During His Official Portrait Shoot

NASA astronaut Leland Melvin was photographed with his two rescue dogs, Jake and Scout, during his official astronaut portrait shoot. Two photos were taken with the dogs. One features the two dogs excitedly jumping onto Melvin, and the other shows them calmly sitting at his site.

Melvin uses the photo of the dogs jumping on him as his Twitter profile photo, but NASA still uses a dogless photo of Melvin from 2009 on his official astronaut bio page.

"@isorude_mark: @Astro_Flow You have the best astronaut photo!"Thx Mark. The time when they were behaving during ???? ???? pic.twitter.com/hvlZjAIVkN

- Leland Melvin (@Astro_Flow) January 24, 2015

This is an official portrait for astronaut Leland Melvin. Also, his handle is @Astro_Flow. I'm in awe. pic.twitter.com/KHWVo94mZO - Adam Aton (@AdamAton) January 28, 2015

photos via NASA

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