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In true World Cup spirit ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst and NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman and Steve Swanson play a friendly game of football, celebrating their goals as only they can while living in the International Space Station.
Recorded during their time-off over the weekend the astronaut-footballers enjoyed a bit weightless football fun.
During Alexander’s six-month Blue Dot mission on the Space Station he will run over 100 experiments that cannot be done anywhere else on Earth – just like these World Cup celebrations.