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Super Bowl LI game ball is currently in outer space

The Super Bowl annually is an out-of-this-world sporting event, so it's only fitting that one of its game balls is currently out of this world.

Really, it is.

At 8:22 a.m. Friday the Houston Super Bowl Committee tweeted a video of NASA astronaut Kate Rubins aboard the International Space Station – 250 miles above Earth - with the official Super Bowl LI game ball floating in front of her.

Rubins is shown in the micro-gravity laboratory where an international crew 'conducts research to advance scientific knowledge for the benefit of all people back on Earth.'

The Super Bowl Committee released the video as part of its celebration of Friday marking the beginning of a 51-day countdown to the game that will determine the NFL's champion on Feb.