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Space
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William Worrall

From 'Tetris' to 'StarCraft 2' — 5 times astronauts took video games into space

A 3D rendering astronaut using a laptop. Gameplay from the game Starfield has been superimposed onto the laptop screen.

Video games have come a long way since their inception, but you’ll find the furthest they’ve gone (so far) is the depths of space itself. No, we're not talking about video games set in space; these actually went into space.

From individual missions to tours aboard the ISS, video games have featured surprisingly often in the inky blackness of space. Astronauts are pretty busy when they're on a mission — it's quite expensive to get them into orbit, and the taxpayers don't want to spend millions of dollars so Victor Glover can play Halo in orbit — but they do occasionally get to take games into space.

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