Vice President Pence touches a piece of hardware with a warning label “Do Not Touch” next to Kennedy Space Center Director Robert Cabana during a tour of the Operations and Checkout Building in Florida on Thursday. (Mike Brown/Reuters)It was the sort of photo that was just begging to be hilariously captioned, mocked on Twitter and photoshopped. During a visit to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday, Vice President Pence solemnly reached out and touched the Orion spacecraft's titanium forward bay cover, placing his full palm just below a sign that read: “Critical Space Flight Hardware 'DO NOT TOUCH.' (Facebook/NASA's Kennedy Space Center)And several people tied the photo to reports that Pence calls his wife “mother” and that he never dines alone with women. pic.twitter.com/6Y7b3UlJXe — Vice President Pence (@VP) July 7, 2017NASA then reassured the vice president that he did nothing wrong, tweeting: “It was OK to touch the surface.

Source: Washington Post July 07, 2017 21:37 UTC