NASA Astronaut Pulls Off a Bicycle Kick in Space Before the Next World Cup Begins #shorts

Added: 2026-06-03

[00:00:00]Ahead of the World Cup, a NASA astronaut just took football somewhere it has never been before. Astronaut Jessica Meir hosted a live science lesson from the International Space Station this week, showing students how engineers design soccer balls to fly smoothly, whether in a backyard or a World Cup final. In microgravity, every spin, every curve, every wobble tells a story about aerodynamics and physics. The lesson, called Science Soccer, demonstrated how a ball's shape directly controls its flight path. And then, she did this, a full bicycle kick in space.

[00:00:34]In microgravity, with nothing to push against and nothing to land on, she pulled off one of football's most acrobatic moves, floating effortlessly through the cabin. The video quickly went viral, with one British viewer offering a very important correction.

[00:00:48]Nearly good, he wrote, until you said soccer. Football, soccer, whatever you call it, it's officially out of this world.