Is this the future?
The highly anticipated (and overwhelmingly positively reviewed) Star Wars: The Last Jedi is officially being released tomorrow and NASA confirmed that astronauts out in space will not have to wait until they're back on planet Earth to enjoy the film: The movie will be screened inside the International Space Station (ISS).
“[I] can confirm the crew will be able to watch it on orbit,” NASA public affairs officer Dan Huot told Inverse.
Although a "definitive timeline" for when the movie will be available for the astronauts to watch while floating around in low Earth orbit has not been established yet, Huot mentioned that "they typically get movies as digital files and can play them back on a laptop or a standard projector that is currently aboard."
Talk about the power of technology.