Thanksgiving in orbit means conventional fare plus lobster : NPR

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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 bunch meal that options some celebratory meals.

"That is my second Thanksgiving in area, so I extremely advocate 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 will 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 superb. So I feel it will be a very, actually scrumptious meal."

Fincke displayed a can of cranberry sauce, which occurred to return from the Russian area company.

"It is sort of neat to have that up right here as a result of that is one among my favourite components," he mentioned. "I'll miss my household, after all. However I am up right here with my area 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, everyone respects one another's tradition," mentioned Yui, who added that he was wanting 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 Jap time on Thursday.