GQ;The Astronaut Who Stars in the Craziest Show on Cable

A day in Los Angeles with Leland Melvin, who went to space, came back, and somehow ended up on Darren Aronofsky’s new documentary series One Strange Rock, about the planet he once looked down upon.

“I’ve seen the planet from space,” Leland Melvin says, with a mix of pride and resignation: he knows what happens when this fact sinks in. Brains become little pink clouds of awe and wonder. Children ask how it works—the body, all the way up there. “They want to know how you use the bathroom in space. That’s probably number two,” in terms of what Leland gets asked. “The first one is: Have you ever had sex in space? Sex and pooping.”

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