The console made it into outer space via the Russian Federation Soyuz TM 17, en route to the modular Mir space station, during Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Serebrov 196 day mission. The cosmonaut packed the Game Boy and a Tetris cartridge — a game which was created by Moscow born Alexey Pajitnov — for his trip, later revealing in an autographed note, During flight, in rare minutes of leisure, I enjoyed playing Game Boy. Over the course of the mission, the console and cosmonaut orbited Earth more...
