The 4 NASA astronauts presently dwelling on the Worldwide House Station (ISS) simply wished all of us all a cheerful Thanksgiving.
Nick Hague, Don Pettit, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore have beamed residence a Turkey Day message from their orbital perch, which NASA launched on Wednesday (Nov. 27).
“Greetings from the Worldwide House Station!” Williams stated to open the two-minute video. “Our crew up right here simply needed to say Pleased Thanksgiving to all our family and friends who’re down on Earth and everybody who’s supporting us.”
Pettit spoke subsequent, commenting on the separation that he and his colleagues have to be feeling on days like in the present day.
“Thanksgiving is often a vacation the place household and mates get collectively,” the astronaut stated. “Typically that may’t occur — to bodily be round one another— however in in the present day’s age, you possibly can just about tie in to your loved ones and mates.”
He handed the mic to Hague, who took the chance to speak turkey. And I imply that actually: He opened a field of victuals, displaying us the pouches that maintain the astronauts’ Turkey Day feast.
“We have Brussels —” Hague stated.
“There’s sardines!” Pettit interjected.
“Brussels sprouts, butternut squash, apples and spice, and smoked turkey,” Hague continued. “It is going to be scrumptious.”
Wilmore was subsequent. He famous a few of the many issues that he and his crewmates should be glad about.
“I imply, there’s not many locations that you would be able to be that you would be able to truly lay on the ceiling, and that is one in all them,” Wilmore stated. “We’re grateful for zero gravity. It is unbelievable.”
On private degree, the astronauts are grateful for “our household, our mates — these which can be lifting up prayers for us,” he added. “We’re grateful for a nation that could be a spacefaring nation, that lets us reside free, say what we predict is vital to say and so many different issues. There’s a lot to be glad about on this season.”
The 4 astronauts closed out the video collectively, saying in unison, “Pleased Thanksgiving!”
Williams, who instructions the ISS’ present Expedition 72 mission, and Wilmore arrived on the station on June 6, on the first-ever crewed flight of Boeing’s new Starliner capsule.
The duo have been supposed to remain on the orbiting lab for only a week or so, however points with Starliner’s thrusters extended their mission. In the end, NASA determined to convey Starliner again to Earth uncrewed, which occurred in September. Williams and Wilmore will come residence in February with Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on their SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule. (Hague and Gorbunov arrived on the ISS in late September, on SpaceX’s Crew-9 mission.)
Pettit got here to the ISS on Sept. 11 aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, which additionally ferried cosmonauts Oleksey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner.
