Cosmonaut ‘flies’ vacuum cleaner across International Space Station

Here’s a reason to pay attention to science, maths and technology in school, kiddiewinks.

Because one day, if you study hard enough, you might just be able to fly a vacuum cleaner around in space.

Yeah.

This new life ambition has been inspired by Anton Shkaplerov, Russian cosmonaut and astro bad-arse.

We mean, look at this guy:

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Tweeting from the International Space Station, he brought us the results of a very important zero-gravity experiment which was inspired by a question he is “very often asked”.

And that question was: “Do we fly on a vacuum cleaner around the station?”

Hmmm.

Really?

We would have thought the question most people would ask would be wee-related, but okay then.

“I had to answer that I did not try,” he said on Twitter.

“And here during the subbotnik I thought that the third flight ... it's time to test the vacuum cleaner.”

[Via New Line Cinema] 

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The results of this space test speak for themselves, with video evidence of this ground-breaking research clocking up more than 100,000 views and making headlines around the globe.

As it turns out, you don’t need to be a witch from Salem brought back to life by a virgin lighting a candle to fly a vacuum cleaner…

[Via Buena Vista Entertainment]

You just need to study really, really hard, qualify as an astronaut and get yourself to space.

Dream big, earthlings!