Sixty years after tv audiences very first tuned in to see the trips of the Starship Enterprisean astronaut on board the International Space Station has actually commemorated Star Trek by flying the badge of the franchise’s newest imaginary captain.

Exploration 75 flight engineer Sophie Adenot with European Space Agency (ESA) put on the Delta badge initially used by star Anson Mount for a video tape-recorded from aboard the spaceport station. Mount represents Christoper Pike in the Paramount+ streaming series Star Trek: Strange New WorldsParamount and ESA both launched the clip on their Instagram feeds.

“For 60 years, Star Trek has actually brought us stories of relationship and expedition. I’m using Captain Pike’s badge aboard the ISS in event of continuing the real life work of science and expedition,” stated Adenot. “For me, expedition and science have to do with interest and cooperation bold to go a little further together, gaining from what we find and develop, and turning that understanding into a much better future for everybody.”

“Happy 60th Star Trek. Live long and flourish,” she stated, showing the standard Vulcan salute.

“Explore. Discover. Do it together.”

In a post accompanying the video, ESA stated that the pin was zipped Adenot as part of her European” Epsilon “objective as a method of representing what Star Trek shares with the continuous effort by humankind to check out.

“It’s a little things, however it brings something larger– 60 years of a story that taught us to dream about checking out together,” checks out the company’s post. “For more than 50 years, that’s precisely what we’ve been doing. We’ve sent out individuals and makers beyond Earth, developed spacecraft with partners from lots of nations and kept asking the exact same concern Star Trek never ever stopped asking: what’s out there, and what can we gain from it?”