ISS Astronauts Watch Star Wars To Celebrate Jedi Holiday

(CBS SF) -- In a meta moment science nerds can only dream of, astronauts at the International Space Station watched Stars Wars Monday to celebrate May The Fourth.

A tweet from the @ISS_Research account with a photo of lightsaber-wielding Samuel L. Jackson as Mace Windu in the background revealed they were watching the prequel trilogy.

"Just watching @starwars. In space. No big deal."

But many weren't too pleased with their selection.

"You picked the wrong one!" one person tweeted back.

"You are watching the worst one though," another said.

Earlier in the day, NASA tweeted out a line from Obi Wan Kenobi in Star Wars Episode IV to wish everyone a Happy May The Fourth May With You.

"That's no moon. It's a space station," it read.

And the Star Wars references don't stop there.

In February,  NASA released a specially-themed poster featuring the upcoming ISS crew donning Jedi robes.

The poster features the station's first year-long mission scheduled to launch in September with crew Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko, NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren, Russian cosmonauts Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko and Kimiya Yui with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.

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