The Mannequin Challenge Finally Made It To Space

The Mannequin Challenge took over space

In a year full of challenges taking over everywhere, we saw almost everybody doing them. It was like people couldn’t resist to its virality and needed to do it. Just when we thought it was over, the Mannequin Challenge reached space.

Well, the International Space Station at least. Right on time, just before the year ends and the challenges become a thing of the past. But either way, we can now officially say that everybody did the Mannequin Challenge, and that includes astronauts.

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2016: The year of viral Challenges, and other things.

So, this year might be remembered as a tough one, but it will also be remembered as the one in which challenges took over the place. Challenges got literally everybody from classrooms to Presidential candidates performing them. But the Mannequin Challenge went mainstream.

#Mannequinchallenge live 🤘🏽❄️ pic.twitter.com/y0aUTIfyTn

— Swae Lee Lee Swae (@goSwaeLee) November 4, 2016

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Let’s just stand still.

In case you’ve been living in a cave, let me tell you what’s all about. The challenge consisted of getting a group of people standing still, while a camera plans all over the place and got them in the most mannequin-ish pose. It also had the song “Black Beatles” by Rae Sremmurd playing at the back.

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A post shared by Enrique Albert Bernabeu © (@enriquebernabeufit) on Dec 30, 2016 at 7:21am PST

And just when we thought it was made by everybody.

Soccer players.

England's #mannequinchallange pic.twitter.com/5KgaDtzyYe

— ITV Football (@itvfootball) November 15, 2016

Adorable babies.

Awwww they almost got it 😂❤️ #mannequinchallenge

A post shared by Baller Alert (@balleralert) on Nov 10, 2016 at 7:37pm PST

Celebrities.

#MannequinChallenge

A post shared by Ellen (@theellenshow) on Nov 7, 2016 at 3:45pm PST

The Challenge reached whole new heights.

Astronauts on the International Space Station now did it! The video was tweeted by Thomas Pesquet, an astronaut that’s in for a six-month mission. He and the other 5 crew members did the viral challenge in space.

We got the whole crew together and took the #MannequinChallenge to new heights #Proxima pic.twitter.com/vlOglQ3lEh

— Thomas Pesquet (@Thom_astro) December 29, 2016

But is better with the music.

Kindly provided by Twitter user @FlacoU2P.

@Thom_astro C'est mieux avec la musique, vous avez pas première pro dans l'espace ? :p pic.twitter.com/YqDIOCCeuf

— Flaco (@FlacoU2P) December 29, 2016