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ladies and gentlemen we are broadcasting live from space Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg hosted a call from the International Space Station speaking to three NASA and ESA astronauts on Facebook live of course all right so let's take some questions from the threat and by the way it's awesome to see the microphone just flying around over there that is not something that I'm used to even in our virtual reality lab where we can make stuff like that we just haven't yet hundreds of users posted questions before the event and Zuckerberg even took a few fun ones and is astronaut ice cream a real thing we know that the asteroid ice cream that you buy in the gift store that powdery stuff yeah that's not real broadcasting live from the ISS is also a part of the Facebook CEOs big space push in April 2016 he announced he was on the board of the breakthrough starshot project alongside Stephen Hawking and physicist yuri milner breakthrough starshot will develop a proof-of-concept fleet of tiny spacecraft to reach Alpha Centauri four point three seven light-years away once the mothership with a tiny spacecraft reaches orbit lasers on earth focus a light beam on their sails to get them up to speed who knows in 20 years we might even see our first facebook live from our closest star system