---
title: "This Record-Breaking Astronaut’s Dog Is Really Glad to See Her. But."
description: "Record-breaking astronaut Christina Koch was excited to see her dog after her spaceflight, but her dog lacked the same enthusiasm."
date: "2020-02-14"
modified: "2020-02-21"
authors:
  - name: "Foster Kamer"
    job_title: "Editor-in-Chief"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/foster"
url: "https://futurism.com/christina-koch-dog-nasa-astronaut-returns"
categories:
  - "Off-World"
  - "Space"
tags:
  - "assholes"
  - "dogs"
  - "lol"
  - "space"
---

# This Record-Breaking Astronaut’s Dog Is Really Glad to See Her. But.

![Christina Koch set a record spaceflight. This is what happened when she returned to her dog, who is, unlike its owner, an underachiever.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/christina-koch-dog-nasa-astronaut-returns.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: Christina Koch\</em\>*

Look: We here at Futurism Dot Com are not immune — like every other media outlet on the internet — to the occasional shameless Internet Dog post.

Among our ranks are dog owners; our office is dog-friendly. Also, we're shameless. So here's a video of NASA astronaut Christina Koch coming home to her dog after returning from her [record-setting](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/nasa-astronaut-koch-space-record-miss-microgravity>) 328-day spaceflight:

https://twitter.com/Astro_Christina/status/1228037678165352449

The dog's name, for the record, is LBD, which stands for Little Brown Dog. And look at our fawning contemporaries in media, covering this particular story:

![](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Screen-Shot-2020-02-14-at-10.20.28-AM.png>)

Ah, yes, CNN: That regal news operation, just *bowled over* by this dog. *Time* magazine, that old stalwart, argues that this dog *could not be happier*.

We beg to differ.

Allow us to introduce you, dear reader, [to the Master Returns subreddit](<https://www.reddit.com/r/MasterReturns/>), which is full of videos of dogs who are *far* happier to see their owners — who weren't even in space! — than Christina Koch's dog, which could do better:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MasterReturns/comments/f3g2ld/reunited_with_ruby_after_almost_four_weeks_away/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x

See? This dog certainly did better:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MasterReturns/comments/ezj6ex/welcome_home_a_soldiers_worry_her_beloved_dog/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x

This dog *absolutely* owns lesser dogs with a greeting involving pirouettes:

https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/eqtoje/its_been_a_whole_2_hours_since_weve_seen_each/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x

See? That's all. We just expect more of that dog.

Related: Welcome back, Christina Koch. Not that you needed a reminder, but Earth is full of assholes, and only dogs are good. Also, LBD, do better.

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**EVEN MORE #FUTURISM\_PETS CONTENT:** *[If You Don't Adopt These Animals the FDA Experimented on You're a Bad Person](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/adopt-lab-animals-fda-experiments>)*

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