"Juuuuust a little bit outside..."

Forget The Rocket. A real astronaut will throw the first pitch at Wednesday night's Yankee game.

NASA astronaut Dr. Garrett Reisman will throw the ceremonial pitch from the International Space Station during Wednesday's game against the Red Sox.

Broadcast on the stadium's JumboTron screens, it will be the first ceremonial first pitch in Yankee history thrown from space.

Reisman, a lifelong Yankee fan, carried a Yankee banner, a cap autographed by George Steinbrenner and a pile of dirt from the Yankee Stadium pitcher's mound with him onboard the International Space Station on March 12.

The New Jersey native said throwing the first pitch will be a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

"I am really honored to have this opportunity, in such a historic season, in the House that Ruth Built," he said.

Reisman, 40, is in the middle of a four-month stay aboard the space station, located more than 200 miles above the Earth's surface. He will return home in June.

Until then, Reisman will remain outer space's biggest Yankee fan.

"From Earth's orbit," he said, "but still deep inside the Yankees universe, let me say, Go Yanks!"