Seven astronauts are celebrating the holiday season next to the International Space Station, but that doesn’t stop any holiday cheer on Earth.
The expedition cre members are starting the day, but NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Waker and Kate Rubins, and astronaut Sochi Noguchi from Japan took some time. Send message Especially difficult holiday during your “resilience” to return home.
“Resilience” is also the name they were given SpaceX Crew Dragon Capsule It unveiled four of the astronauts last month.
“We have chosen to pay tribute to those people and teams around the world who have helped make our mission possible over the course of a year that has changed our entire lives,” Hopkins said. “We would also like to remember everyone we lost this year.”
“There couldn’t be a more appropriate name to describe 2020,” Glover added. “The resilience of the human spirit is something we can really celebrate this special season.”
“As we prepare to celebrate the holidays far away from our loved ones, we are looking at our precious planet, and it becomes clear how much we are really connected,” Vaker said.
Hopkins, Glover, Vaker Kar and Noguchi set off for the station in November, Rubin, as well as Russian cosmonauts Sergei Ryzykov and Sergei Kud-Sverkov, all of whom will spend Christmas and leisure time, inviting family and friends and sharing a festive meal together.
“My family on the ground is definitely in my thoughts and prayers and on my socks,” Glover said. Another video, Pointing to her customized socks featuring pictures of family members. “But it also makes me think about all the people who can’t even spend the holidays with their families,” he said, thanking service members and health care workers during the epidemic.
Earlier this month, a SpaceX Dragon Cargo Ship The ISS arrived with new supplies – including Christmas gifts and fixings. Roasted turkey, cranberry berry sauce, cornbread dressing, cherry blueberry cobbler, potatoes and gratin, cookies and other marsalas for the seven-person holiday feast, all came before the holiday.
“The holidays mean three F’s – family, friends and food,” he said.
Noguchi also found special food items from a group of Japanese students at Vogasa High School: a small can of mackerel.
“We hope that before we turn the lender into a new year, you will also have the opportunity to celebrate the holidays with new hope and a spirit for the future,” Noguchi said.
Rubins said the crew is hosting a contest against the mission control team at the Johnson Space Center – whichever team decorates their workstations with the best DIY outfits in space and in the hands of mission control.
“I know you issued a challenge and just let me say, are you decorating the mission control? Accepting the challenge,” said NASA Flight Director Zebulon Scoville, a festive blazer and tie game. “I have to cut this coat to turn it into something new.”
Santa’s sleigh put a special stop on the ISS for the first time in his year Nord, North American Aerospace Defense Command, which “tracks” Santa’s travels each year. The Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday cleared Santa for a space flight, and granted it a special commercial space license for crew missions to the ISS under the “Starslag-1 Space Capsule,” operated by Rudolf Rocket.
“Let’s face it, 2020 has been a difficult year and we can all use some special holiday excitement that only Santa can deliver,” said FAAA administrator Steve Dixon.
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