# @europeanspaceagency on Instagram - **Type:** Video - **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DOWM4CnjAtX - **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/35581027-europeanspaceagency-instagram - **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/2a20f8dfc7.jpg - **Posted:** 2025-09-08T15:50:00.000+00:00 - **Account Owner:** J.L.Lopez (@xandler80) — https://gondola.cc/xandler80 ## Caption Star Trek tech, in real life! 🖖 8 September is @startrek Day and while the series imagined futuristic gadgets, many are already flying in space with us. - Tricorder? On the @iss, astronauts use a handheld scanner to check how their muscles cope in microgravity. - Replicator? Our researchers are developing mini bioreactors to grow food in orbit — one day maybe even a space burger on demand. - PADDs? Astronauts rely on tablets for checklists and experiments. Paper manuals? Long gone. - VISOR? Augmented reality headsets now overlay digital instructions right into astronauts’ field of view. Which Star Trek tech do you wish you could test first? 📹 @europeanspaceagency 📸 @hubbleesa & @NASA, J. Dalcanton, Dark Energy Survey, DOE, FNAL, DECam, CTIO, NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, @esoastronomy; @creativecommons BY 4.0 Acknowledgement: @geckzilla ## Stats - **Views:** 38,434 - **Likes:** 5,189 - **Shares:** 0 - **Comments:** 70 ## Credits | Name | Username | Profile | Role | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | ESA - European Space Agency | @europeanspaceagency | https://gondola.cc/europeanspaceagency | Government Organization | | Star Trek | @startrek | https://gondola.cc/startrek | TV Show | | J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Producer | | J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Editor | | J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Social Media Manager | | J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Writer | | J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Digital Creator | | J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Creator | | J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Copywriter | | J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Community Manager | | J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Subtitler | | J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Screenwriter | | J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Thumbnail Designer | ## Tags europeanspaceagency, space, star trek --- Copyright (c) Gondola