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NASA astronaut celebrates Thanksgiving on ISS with turkey socks, Earth perspectives

NASA astronaut celebrates Thanksgiving on ISS with turkey socks, Earth perspectives
November 26, 2023



A NASA astronaut’s ft cosplayed as a turkey in house.NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara gained new turkey socks for U.S. Thanksgiving at the Global House Station (ISS). She then spent part of her day without work in orbit on Thursday (Nov. 23) appearing off the turkey ft at quite a lot of issues across the 356-foot (109-meter) complicated.”Thankful for excellent perches, and my circle of relatives who despatched me those socks,” O’Hara posted Friday (Nov. 24) on X, previously Twitter. The images with the publish integrated a view out the cupola window of the ISS that featured a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, with the turkey ft showing to hang at the body of the window.The workforce basically spent the day stress-free along “taking part in vacation treats like chocolate, duck, quail, seafood, pumpkin spice cappuccino and extra,” NASA officers wrote on Friday of the workforce’s Thanksgiving actions.Similar: Astronauts have fun Thanksgiving in house! Here is what they will devour and what they are grateful for (video)Every other eerie view of O’Hara socks within the Eastern Kibo module confirmed off the floating ft in entrance of the airlock, which astronauts just lately used to organize a fabrics experiment for publicity at the external of the ISS.In case you glance in moderation within the background of the photograph, you’ll be able to additionally see a chain of flags representing the companions of the ISS, in addition to a suite of 3 small globes depicting the moon, Earth and Mars.O’Hara didn’t specify on which shipment send the socks arrived, however possibly it was once the SpaceX shipment Dragon spacecraft that docked with the ISS on Nov. 11 with provides and experiments, together with a laser communications check. O’Hara arrived herself on the ISS on Sept. 16 by way of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, along cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub, either one of Russia’s house company Roscosmos.RELATED STORIES:— Astronauts dropped a device bag all over an ISS spacewalk, and you’ll be able to see it with binoculars— NASA astronaut sees her folks’ beginning nation from house. ‘This can be the nearest I will be able to ever get’— Canada assigns astronauts to release on Boeing’s Starliner, again up Artemis 2 moon missionThe ISS Expedition 70 workforce additionally come with the SpaceX Group-7 astronauts, which might be ISS commander Andreas Mogensen of the Eu House Company, NASA’s Jasmin Moghbeli, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Company’s Satoshi Furukawa and Russian cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov. Amid loads of experiments, O’Hara and Moghbeli additionally did the fourth-ever all-female spacewalk on Nov. 1.In the meantime at the flooring, a brand new ISS workforce project was once introduced in Canada on Wednesday (Nov. 22). The Canadian House Company’s (CSA) Joshua Kutryk will fly to the ISS with the Boeing Starliner-1 workforce in 2025. That would be the CSA’s first long-duration challenge since fellow company astronaut David Saint-Jacques flew in 2018-19.Starliner is the second one U.S. industrial craft tasked with turning in astronauts along SpaceX Group Dragon, even supposing the Boeing spacecraft has been not on time in checking out with crews because of technical issues through the years.

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