Cosmonaut Yuri Lonchakov carried a small plush polar bear that was a gift ... Russia's Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft in 2013. The Fram2 polar bear with its penguin embroidery will fly with the ...

The first astronauts to enter a polar orbit around Earth chose the obvious animal to serve as their zero-g indicator — a plush white *polar* bear ... of an emperor penguin embroidered on ...