People Care About Hair A Lot, Even Presidents & Astronauts

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Remember how hard some of those Where's Waldo? pictures where?
Yea... this game of where's Sandra is nothing like that.

Having lived through the age of "The Rachel" and with all the , I shouldn't have been surprised that people have a downright obsession with hair (both other people's and their own). However, when a thirty minute conversation between astronauts and Presidential-types also includes hair commentary and questions...

The Belleville News-Democrat is reporting that Belleville native, and one of the astronauts aboard and international space station Discovery, Sandra Magnus was asked about her hair during a conversation with President Obama

“That’s a really good question, cause there’s a little bit of an overhead to take care of long hair here,” Magnus said. “Ideally, a short hair cut’s the way to go, but quite frankly, on me it wouldn’t be so nice so I kept it long.”

“I think it’s a real fashion statement,” Obama said with a chuckle.

Obama also asked about the final set of solar wings the crew installed on the space station last week.

Sandra The Astronaut's mama, Rose Hall, said her attention getting locks will be pruned at an appointment she made... from space... when she returns to earth. I ask you this, what would be the first thing on your mind if you were in space or if you were talking to an astronaut? Evidently hair is more important than space travel and rocket ships combined, because you know you were just going to say "getting my hair did."