NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli celebrated Hanukkah at the Global House Station (ISS) with a felt menorah and a spinning dreidel on Thursday evening.Glad Hanukkah from the @Space_Station!! Actual candles now not allowed! %.twitter.com/xdqwyot5ae— Jasmin Moghbeli (@AstroJaws) December 7, 2023″Glad Hanukkah from the @Space_Station!! Actual candles now not allowed!” wrote Moghbeli on X with a video appearing a felt menorah with felt “flames” and a dreidel spinning close to probably the most home windows of the distance station. Right through a press convention at NASA’s Johnson House Heart in Houston in July, Moghbeli discussed that she supposed to have a good time the vacation in house, pronouncing “My husband and little ladies helped make a felt menorah, with lighting fixtures for each and every evening, that I will pin directly to have a good time with them. So I am excited to do this,” in keeping with House.com. Hanukkah (credit score: PXHERE)Will there be latkes in house?In a Zoom name on the time with House.com, Moghbeli added that she is thinking about the way to come with latkes if conceivable.Moghbeli’s husband, Sam, is Jewish and their family celebrates each Christmas and Hanukkah. Moghbeli is the second one Iranian-American to visit house.This is not the primary time Hanukkah has been celebrated on the ISS. In 2019, Jewish astronaut Jessica Meir posted a photograph from the distance station with socks with menorahs and Stars of David.
