In addition to the normal Thanksgiving fare, NASA astronauts on the Worldwide House Station will get pleasure from clams, smoked salmon and lobster.
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NASA webcast
About 250 miles above the Earth, NASA astronauts on board the Worldwide House Station (ISS) will get pleasure from an off-duty day for Thanksgiving, together with a gaggle meal that options some celebratory meals.
“That is my second Thanksgiving in house, so I extremely suggest it,” mentioned Mike Fincke, in a video message beamed down from the outpost.
This fall, NASA included a “Vacation Bulk Overwrapped Bag,” or BOB, on a resupply mission that went as much as the station. The bag contained festive objects like clams, oysters, crab meat, quail, and smoked salmon.
“Our floor groups and the meals lab at NASA have taken such nice care of us,” mentioned Zena Cardman, who famous that they’re going to even have conventional fare like turkey and mashed potatoes, all packaged up in ways in which will not trigger a multitude in microgravity. “We have even received some lobster, which is wonderful. So I feel it may be a very, actually scrumptious meal.”
Fincke displayed a can of cranberry sauce, which occurred to return from the Russian house company.
“It is sort of neat to have that up right here as a result of that is one in every of my favourite elements,” he mentioned. “I will miss my household, in fact. However I am up right here with my house household and it is actually superior.”
Cardman and Fincke, together with fellow NASA astronaut Jonny Kim, will share their vacation meal with three Russian cosmonauts and Japan Aerospace Exploration Company astronaut Kimiya Yui.
“We do not have Thanksgiving in Japan, however right here, on ISS, all people respects one another’s tradition,” mentioned Yui, who added that he was trying ahead to the dinner.
And if all goes as deliberate, extra company will arrive in time for the meal, as a result of a Soyuz rocket with three new crew members for the station, together with NASA astronaut Chris Williams, is scheduled to blast off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:27 am Japanese time on Thursday.
