While you’re being held down by gravity watching “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” in a theatre like a mere earthling, astronauts on board the International Space Station will be watching it in space! In space! Now that’s how you watch “Star Wars.”
The subject came up when British astronaut Tim Peake was asked on Twitter whether he was bummed to be leaving Earth before the premiere of “Star Wars.”
.@ChrisEastabrook We have a projector & screen onboard & I’m told that @starwars will be waiting for us up there…what a place to watch it!
— Tim Peake (@astro_timpeake) December 12, 2015
Just when you thought being in space was the coolest thing about being an astronaut, they throw this in the mix!
“Movie-watching aboard the ISS is not unusual,” Mashable reports. “Astronauts have been known to while away the long evening with a space-based flick. Oddly enough, space disaster movies The Martian and Gravity — in which the ISS just happens to be destroyed — have been chosen in the past year.” So what is it like to watch a movie in space? Astronaut Scott Kelly tweeted out this image earlier this year showing the projection set up the team uses on board the ship:
#Movie night in micro #Gravity aboard #ISS on our new HD projector which we use for conferences, tech software, etc.. pic.twitter.com/Mhb03U3alz
— Scott Kelly (@StationCDRKelly) April 25, 2015
Watched @MartianMovie on @Space_Station last night! Today working towards our #JourneyToMars during my #YearInSpace! pic.twitter.com/rIEBjFxRIr
— Scott Kelly (@StationCDRKelly) September 20, 2015
