First TikTok from SPACE
European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti shares the first TikTok video from the International Space Station as she begins a six-month mission in orbit on May 5, 2022. (Image credit: Samantha Cristoforetti/European Space Agency via TikTok)
European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti posted a video to the social media platform from the International Space Station on Thursday (May 5), becoming the first-ever TikToker in the final frontier. Cristoforetti is part of SpaceX's Crew-4 mission, which arrived at the orbiting lab on April 27 for a six-month stay. Crew-4's launch kicked off Cristoforetti's second spaceflight; she previously lived aboard the space station from November 2014 to June 2015. Cristoforetti's TikTok trailblazing is no surprise; ESA officials noted before Crew-4's launch that she's the first professional astronaut ever on the platform, "bringing space content and European research to a wider audience."
