Tim Peake has asked school children to take part in an experiment to study the effects of micro-gravity on seeds.
In a video sent from the International Space Station, the British astronaut was seen holding a 2kg packet of "rocket seeds" that have been kept on board in a weightless environment since September.
In April, up to 10,000 schools will grow and compare the seeds flown into space with others on Earth as part a Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) and UK Space Agency project, Rocket Science.
Major Peake, from Chichester, West Sussex, is on a six-month mission with the European Space Agency and can be seen floating in the laboratory with the seeds and giving his viewers a big thumbs-up in the video.
"Now that these seeds have been on the International Space Station I'll be packing them up at the end of their mission and sending them back down to Earth," he says.
"When they arrive they will be sent out to thousands of schools to grow alongside the seeds that haven't been up here in space as part of our special science experiment."
The video message has been beamed to 17,000 schools and 6,000 educational groups and organisations.
The results will be analysed by biostatisticians and published later this year.
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