Cosmonaut Yuri Lonchakov carried a small plush polar bear that was a gift ... The Fram2 polar bear with its penguin embroidery will fly with the mission's four astronauts as they span the distance ...

Children who bring in a stuffed animal can get free admission during ... Visitors to the clinic Saturday included penguins, pandas, bears, dinosaurs and even a Pikachu. Kucera said she enjoys ...

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 ...