VIDEO: Astronaut Tim Kopra Throws Football 564664 Yards Aboard International Space Station – SpaceCoastDaily.com

ball was covering about 8,800 yards per second

ABOVE VIDEO: Astronaut Tim Kopra gently tossed a football down the length of the station, the ball was technically covering about 8,800 yards per second (8046 m/s) as measured by someone standing on Earth.

(SPACE) Has a NASA astronaut set a new record for the longest football pass in history? A new video shot in orbit aboard the International Space Station captured the incredible feat.

The space station orbits the Earth at a speed of about 17,500 mph (28,163 km/h). Therefore, when astronaut Tim Kopra gently tossed a football down the length of the station, the ball was technically covering about 8,800 yards per second (8046 m/s) as measured by someone standing on Earth.

In total, the ball traveled 564,664 yards (516,328 meters), according to the video, and NASA posed the question, Is this a new world record?

Were guessing that Guinness World Records will not grant Kopra the record, considering that he too was traveling at an incredible speed when he threw the ball.

Kopra returned home from his latest trip to the orbiting laboratory in June 2016, so it seems NASA has been holding on to this potentially record-setting footage for a while, and chose to release it ahead of the 2017 Super Bowl this Sunday.

NASA made its presence known at this years Super Bowl in Houston, home of the Johnson Space Center.

Leading up to the big game, visitors to Houston were able to check out a free festival taking place at Discovery Green, located in the citys downtown area.

The main attraction there was a virtual reality roller coaster, called Future Flight, which simulates a spacecraft landing on Mars.

The free festival featured displays, booths and activities created by NASA, as well as by private spaceflight companies, including Boeing, Aerojet Rocketdyne, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Orbital ATK and Raytheon.

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