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“The Button King’s story began one night in 1983, when his insomnia prevented him from falling asleep. Back then, television went off at two in the morning, so he had to find something to pass the time. Searching through his old things, he found an old denim jumpsuit and started sewing buttons on it. Two years and ten months later, Dalton was still a chronic insomniac, but his jumpsuit was covered with 16,333 buttons and weighed 16 pounds. Remarkably as that sounds, it was only the beginning of his incredible experience with buttons. Even after completing his button tracksuit, Stevens kept attaching thousands of buttons on various stuff. He glued 3,005 buttons on his guitar and 517 buttons on his shoes. His banjo, piano and his 1983 Chevette soon followed, and before long, his unique occupation grabbed the attention of the media.” w/ photos

“What do you get if you cram thousands of rocket scientists in a car park? A human space shuttle of course. This historic video shows 2,100 employees of the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida shuffling into position as they quickly and efficiently ‘assemble’ a to-scale replica of the space shuttle with their own bodies. But according to NASA, the well executed mission didn’t quite go to plan as too many people turned up. Not ones to be put off by a technical glitch however, the quick thinking boffins came up with a cunning plan – form a (slightly wonky) circle around the craft. A spokesman from the space centre said: ‘It was planned to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the shuttle and the whole event was open to all Kennedy Centre employees. ‘As you would expect with rocket scientists the whole thing was very well organised, apart from the fact too many people turned up.’ The car park just outside the centre was cordoned off on Friday morning and an exact outline of the shuttle chalked onto the ground.” w/ photos + video