Astronaut describes surviving fire on the space station during Comic-Con 2017’s NatGeo Nerd Nite

Astronaut Jerry Linenger has looked down upon Earth from space, but as he prepared to speak to the crowd at Nerd Nite, NatGeo’s annual event at Comic-Con 2017, he saw something he’d likely never seen before.
A mermaid. With a trident. Sitting up front to watch his talk.
Perhaps due to the incredible things Lineger’s done as an astronaut who lived on the Mir space station for nearly 5 months and survived a fire on it, Linenger took everything – the loud music, swirlin