Picture this: you're based in space. The International Space Station, to be precise. It's been a long day, floatin' around, doing all those things astronauts do and it's finally time for movie night.

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The selection is vast: are you in the mood for rom-com? An action flick? A superhero blockbuster, perhaps? No. You choose Gravity. Y'know, that film starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney where EVERYTHING goes wrong?

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly tweeted out a snap of the space disaster film playing on the new ISS projector.

#Movie night in micro #Gravity aboard #ISS on our new HD projector which we use for conferences, tech software, etc.. pic.twitter.com/Mhb03U3alz

— Scott Kelly (@StationCDRKelly) April 25, 2015

A truly fearless choice... Don't know about you, but as I walked out of the cinema I was very pleased to have my feet firmly planted on planet Earth.

However, this isn't the first time the ISS crew have kept us up-to-date with goings-on from their orbit 400km above Earth. Earlier this month astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti tweeted out a selfie taken while dressed in a full Star Trek: Voyager uniform, much to the delight of the internet:

"There's coffee in that nebula"... ehm, I mean... in that #Dragon. pic.twitter.com/9MYrqIOXnI

— Sam Cristoforetti (@AstroSamantha) April 17, 2015

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You've got to pass the time somehow, eh?

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Susanna LazarusAssociate Editor, RadioTimes.com

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