Koichi Vakata, an experienced astronaut with decades of human spaceflight experience, recently posted a romantic moment from the International Space Station (ISS) on social media, which has attracted Alone Musk’s attention. In the video shared on X, Vakata is seen playing single baseball riding at the space station. “This is a baseball season – the MLB season opener is closing in Japan. During the campaign 68 I played a single game of baseball. In microgravity you don’t need the whole team, you can play all the positions!” The Japanese astronaut wrote while sharing the video.
The clip attracted the attention of many X users including Elon Musk. Colonel Chris Headfield, International Space Station (ISS) and the first Canadian to command a global icon in space exploration also resumed the video on the microblogging site with caption, “This is that friend Koi Vakata – Japan plays great baseball inside the Jacques Module of the International Space Station!”
Take a look at the video below:
– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 25, 2025
Internet users were quick to react to clips. While some appreciated the skills displayed by the astronaut, others simply called the video “Cool”.
“It seems fun! Is there a game called spaceball? If humanity is to migrate into space at one point, a little game is to bring/make PPL (whether we have a good amount of data that is just a good amount of data that is just to start IDK) just a random idea,” Written by a user.
“Very impressive sir! Great awareness!” Made another comment. “The baseball game is just fun. Maintain Astro Koichi,” a third user wrote. “Do we ever really grow up? It smiles me,” expressed another.
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Koichi Vakata became the first Japanese astronaut to command the International Space Station (ISS) in 2014. In 2022, he went to the ISS on his third long -time mission, Crew -5, SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft patient. He became one of the few people riding on three different types of spacecraft: Space Shuttle, Soyuz and Dragon. He also built two spacewalks with American astronaut Nicole Aunapu Mann.