Our fave International Man Of Space Relations, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, has wowed us once again with his truly red hot ‘I’m tweeting from space, motherfuckers’ content.
He’s aboard the International Space Station, and pretty regularly tweets mind-blowing pictures of Earth from space. And you don’t think that’s #lifegoals, then you’re just straight up wrong. You’re wrong.
He’s now gone a step further: he’s actually grown a flower aboard the ISS while in orbit, and tweeted photos of it with the caption, “Yes, there are other life forms in space!”
First ever flower grown in space makes its debut! #SpaceFlower #zinnia #YearInSpace pic.twitter.com/2uGYvwtLKr
— Scott Kelly (@StationCDRKelly) January 16, 2016
Yes, there are other life forms in space! #SpaceFlower #YearInSpace pic.twitter.com/BJFWvQXmBB
— Scott Kelly (@StationCDRKelly) January 16, 2016
#SpaceFlower out in the sun for the first time! #YearInSpace pic.twitter.com/Cghu9XGv1J
— Scott Kelly (@StationCDRKelly) January 17, 2016
Astronauts aboard the ISS have only previously been able to grow romaine lettuce and rocket – never anything with flowers, because flowers are apparently more susceptible to dying.
There’s a bunch of super adorbs photos of Kelly tending to his lettuce plants and flowers (and getting a lil’ devo when they died of mould, CUTEY) on the NASA website, which he’s linked in the below tweet:
How does your garden grow? Here’s how my #spaceflower came to bloom: https://t.co/DbmTqqJopf #YearInSpace pic.twitter.com/kl1bxI96PJ
— Scott Kelly (@StationCDRKelly) January 16, 2016
You can follow Scott Kelly‘s adventures in space with #SpaceFlower here, if you like seeing pretty things in your timeline: twitter.com/StationCDRKelly
~ FUCK YEAH SPACE FLOWER! ~
Source: Twitter.
Photo: Twitter.
