The Seven Wildest Astronaut Hair Photos, and the Two Grave Disappointments

Zero gravity can wreak havoc on hair. Female astronauts can do pretty much anything males can, but the men simply cannot match women when it comes to alarming pictures of space hair.

Until, we guess, some hippie dude flies up to the space station.

Here are the seven best pictures of hair going wild in space, followed by two astronauts who we had such high hopes for, only to be disappointed.

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7. Judith Resnik
Resnik rode with, among others, Mike Mullen, who wrote the entertaining memoir Riding Rockets. In it he tells how Resnik's hair fouled up the new and very expensive IMAX camera but she was horrified at the thought of what that news would do to the reputation of the still-nascent female-astronaut corps.

"If you so much as breathe a word to [Mission Control] about my hair jamming the camera, I'll cut your heart out with a spoon," she told the astronaut reaching for the microphone to contact Houston. ("Or perhaps she threatened a more vital area of his anatomy," Mullen adds.)

The crew told Mission Control they had no idea why the camera was malfunctioning.

6. Cady Coleman
Space. It makes you go from this:

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to this:
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5. Karen Nyberg
Even ponytails must run wild.

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