He was interested in becoming an astronaut too.
It's a continuity nod. Why is everyone harping on it?

I'm more surprised that no one is pointing out Ryusei's panicking.

I get that he's interested. But he was a creepy psychopath and now he's just earnest and kind? It makes no sense to include him. Why not just use another nobody classmate like the others in their group?

As for Ryusei, I think that just shows that any sane well put together person will lose it after 70 hours with Yuuki and Gentarou :lol

Well, they established that switches amplify emotions. So his former creeper status was amplified to psycho killer thanks to the switch.
Not everyone is gonna go into withdrawals like the Orion Switcher (Don't remember his name). And maybe the ass kicking he received from the bus of girls helped mellow him a bit :P

And to be honest, I think Ryusei lasted a lot longer than I ever could :lol

Sad thing is I'd probably react in the same way as Ryusei :lolol

So you're gonna start screaming "wacha!" at walls now? :lol

70 hours no food, surrounded by 10,000 paper cranes with alert sirens and flashing lights going off, while cameras watching you after spending the entire time with Gen and hyper Yuuki?
Kind of an under reaction, if you ask me :lol

It happened before...that was a very awkward, especially when the rest of my theater classmates walked in :lol

Interesting episode, Elleen is pretty easy on the eyes even if she is crazy. I agree that Yuuki was way overboard this episode. Nice touch with the Fourze Driver voice for each of the trials, that put a smile on my face.

Yuuki was unbearable in this episode, I really hope they tone it down to what she was like at the beginning of the series rather that the OTT character she is now.

I keep waiting for Libra to become the real series endgame villain. Dude's getting so much lip from everybody and skating on such thin ice that I kinda want to see him get a break.

Mind, what would be kinda awesome is if the guys trapped in the Dark Nebula come back before the finale.