MUMBAI: Marvel Studios has arranged to transfer their record-breaking blockbuster film The Avengers with NASA.

Taking things forward, NASA‘s Mission Control in Houston will uplink the film to the International Space Station (ISS), currently orbiting 220 miles above Earth. The film will then be screened for the space station crew‘s exclusive enjoyment.

Said Marvel Studios‘ co-president and executive producer of the film Louis D‘Esposito, "The studio is privileged to share The Avengers with those up in space exploring the universe. A special thanks goes to NASA for utilizing their incredible technology to make this special screening miles above us in space happen. It is a screening that would make Tony Stark envious."

This screening continues Marvel‘s collaboration with NASA, which began during principal photography of the film when it was shot at the Space Power Facility at NASA‘s Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio.

The current space station mission is Expedition 31 and has a six-member crew consisting of two NASA astronauts, 1 European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut and 3 Russian (RU) cosmonauts.