Dudes will look at this and say “hell yeah” — and they’re right.

What is to be done with a piece of machinery that’s past its usefulness? Do you simply sell it for parts? Let it rust away in a field? Or do you place it atop a pile of explosives and try to send it to the moon?

This man opted for the latter. Playing his lawnmower on top of a mountain of explosives, he decided that, if the machine was no longer going to work, it was going to take on a new life as an astronaut. Here’s how that went: