It must be brilliant being an astronaut. Not because of all the laser fights you get to have with aliens, but because people will give you anything that you ask for.
Just weeks after Paul McCartney decided to sing a couple of songs up towards the astronauts in the International Space Station, it’s been revealed that they’ve also seen a special transmission of Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire.
Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire (Books) is now the most successful film
in UK cinema history. In addition to the £14.9 million it made in it’s
three opening days, Harry Potter 4 has also taken over $100 million in
America. And now the astronauts onboard the International Space Station
have also seen it, although they probably didn’t have to pay, and they
didn’t have to watch the advert about how downloading movies is so naughty first.
Mission Control in Houston specially transmitted Harry Potter And
The Goblet Of Fire after Bill McArthur, one of the two astronauts
onboard the International Space Station along with Valery Tokarev, put
a special request in to see it.
The transmission of Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire follows a special Paul McCartney performance
that was beamed to McArthur and Tokarev. All this special treatment
would be enough to make us jealous, but we’ve discovered that their
Thanksgiving meal will be made up of irradiated smoked turkey,
dehydrated green beans, powdered drinks and a thermo-stabilised
cranberry-apple dessert. We’re going to have a delicious pizza. So we
win.
It says a lot about the boredom of working onboard the
International Space Station that, even though McArthur and Tokarev get to gaze at all
the heavenly beauty of the planet Earth from a distance, they’d rather
watch an over-long movie about a jolly little wizard.
It’s thought that the
screening of Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire went well until
Tokarev’s phone went off in the middle of it, prompting a series of
irritated tuts from McArthur.
Read more:
Space Screening For Potter Movie – BBC
[story by Stuart Heritage]
