Out of this World Series: NASA astronauts aboard the ISS share video of them playing baseball on the ship
- NASA astronauts on the ISS played baseball in honor of the World Series
- Jessica Meir, Christina Koch and Drew Morgan all joined in for the friendly game
- Meir later shared a stunning photo on twitter with the baseball floating in the ISS
It’s a ballgame that was out-of-this-world.
NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station celebrated the World Series on Earth by playing their own game in space.
The video shared on Twitter shows Jessica Meir pitching, Christina Koch as the catcher and Drew Morgan up to bat, who was out after the first pitch.
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NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station celebrated the World Series on Earth by playing their own game in space. The video shared on Twitter shows Jessica Meir pitching, Christina Koch as the catcher and Drew Morgan up to bat, who was out after the first pitch
The baseball thrown in the game was authentic, but it appears Morgan was using a large flashlight for the bat.
Meir pitches the ball and Morgan manages to hit it, but sends it flying right back to his opponent – making him out after the first pitch.
The television station Fox worked with the crew to add a sound bite from sportscaster Joe Buck, which can be heard in the background.
Later, Meir tweeted a photo in honor of the World Series, showing the baseball floating in front of the windows of the space station with the Earth in the background.
Later, Meir tweeted a photo in honor of the World Series, showing the baseball floating in front of the windows of the space station with the Earth in the background
She wrote, ‘This 17,500 mph fastball found its way to the space station cupola.’
‘We hope all are enjoying watching the World Series action back on Earth!’
The mentioned of 17,500 mph in the tweet is reference to how face a space craft needs to travel in order to remain in orbit.
Meir and her colleague and friend made history two weeks ago after completing the first all-female spacewalk.
In a more than seven-hour mission outside of the International Space Station, the women successfully completed their goal of fixing a broken power controller that supplemented its solar network.
Meir and her colleague and friend made history two weeks ago after completing the first all-female spacewalk. Pictured is the pair inside of the craft after the six hour spacewalk
Koch and Meir replaced battery units called BCDUs after they failed to provide increased power to the ISS.
The failure had not significantly impacted the crew or its mission but needed to be repaired nonetheless.
According to NASA, BCDUs regulate the charge for batteries that draw energy from the station’s solar collectors to provide power as the station orbits at night.
Koch, who is also set to complete the longest single spaceflight by a woman as she remains in orbit until February 2020, said gender milestones like the spacewalk are especially significant.
‘There are a lot of people who derive motivation from inspiring stories from people who look like them, and I think that it´s an important aspect of the story to tell,’ she told a NASA briefing in Houston this month.
‘What we´re doing now shows all the work in the decades prior from all the women that worked to get us where we are today,’ Meir added.