Samantha Cristoforetti, a 42-year-old European astronaut, opted to wear a Star Trek uniform while she was on the International Space Station (ISS) back in 2015.
Sharing a photo of herself in April that year in which she was seen wearing the black-red uniform inside the ISS, Cristoforetti captioned her tweet: “There’s coffee in that nebula’ ehm, I mean in that #Dragon.”
For those who can’t comprehend the caption, it referred to the SpaceX spacecraft approaching the ISS which had an espresso maker in it, indicating the ability to make coffee in space.
Cristoforetti’s uniform was similar to the one used in Star Trek: Voyager, a space series that aired between 1995 and 2001. Back then, only the Voyager series of the Star Trek franchise had a female captain, Kathryn Janeway played by Kate Mulgrew.
In the latest Star Trek series, named Discovery, actress Sonequa Martin-Green is playing lieutenant commander Michael Burnham.
Back in 2015, Samantha’s tweet amassed over 12k likes and 8k retweets, but now the picture has gone viral once again.
The picture resurfaced after the first all-female spacewalk happened outside the ISS last Friday.
This walk consisted of Jessica Meir and Christina Koch, who went out of the ISS to repair a malfunctioning power controller on October 21.
However, it was not the first attempt by NASA to carry out an all-female spacewalk.
Previously, NASA tried to carry out an all-female spacewalk with Anne McClain and Christina Koch while Kristen Facciol from Canadian Space Agency was supposed to provide ground support from Houston’s Johnson Space Center.
But the venture had to be canceled because NASA did not have spacesuits for all astronauts.
So far, NASA has conducted more than 200 spacewalks at the ISS but only 15 women have ever walked the space.
With the exception of the Friday walk, all of the women who have ever walked the space were accompanied by males.
Koch will remain at the ISS until the coming February, CNN reported. She reached the ISS in March and she will be spending the longest time any female has ever spent in space.
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