1. Mike Massimino was the first person to tweet from space during a Hubble Space Telescope repair mission in 2009. 2. The movement described is the Hare Krishna movement, also known as the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON). It started the Food for Life project in 1995 that now serves over 700,000 meals daily in over 60 countries. 3. The story refers to Rudyard Kipling's story "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" in which a boy ends up with wild animals including a tiger, hyena, zebra, and orangutan in a small lifeboat.