There is no longer any doubt that tik tak gained immense popularity all over the world. However, the app for quick videos goes beyond the Earth. literally – and all thanks Samantha Cristoforetti. An Italian professional astronaut was the first to use TikTok in space.

In the latest video, Samantha Cristoforetti talks about the launch of the Space Shuttle Freedom from SpaceX, with two mission weightless indicators, a plush turtle named Zippy and a plush monkey named Etta. The astronaut arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) on the Crew-4 mission on April 27 and will remain on the mission for the next six months.

The pro’s TikTok profile was created in April and already has over 150,000 followers. Before the launch, she was already producing content about the oddities in the life of astronauts, showing space food, how astronauts exercise and go to the toilet. In addition, Samantha became the first astronaut to blog about her training and first flight between 2014 and 2015.

In addition to digital media, Samantha Cristoforetti was the first Italian woman to travel in space, the first to make coffee in space, and set the record for a European astronaut on a mission at the time, spending 199 days in orbit. His record was broken only in 2020 by the Frenchman Thomas Pescet. The launch of Ekipazh-4 is the second space flight of an astronaut.

Despite TikTok being the latest social network to debut in space, this isn’t the first time astronauts have used virtual media to tell us what they’re doing right from their spaceships. For example, during the last maintenance mission of the Hubble telescope in 2009, American Michael Massimino sent first tweet from spaceaboard the Atlantis spacecraft.

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Via: Gizmodo Brasil, Space.com