Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti is preparing to take the social media platform Tiktok to space, inviting people to follow her "to boldly go where no TikToker has gone before!" Cristoforetti, popularly known in Italy as AstroSam, will join three other crew members on the Minerva mission to the International Space Station (ISS), with take-off scheduled from the NASA Kenney Space Center in Florida on 23 April.

An astronaut with the European Space Agency (ESA), Cristoforetti will be launched into orbit on a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft with three NASA astronauts: Kjell Lindgren, Bob Hines and Jessica Watkins. Cristoforetti, 44, holds the record for the longest uninterrupted spaceflight by a European astronaut (199 days, 16 hours) from her mission to the ISS in 2014.