United States: Two astronauts, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, received an out-of-this-world Christmas present this month: they learned their stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS) would be a little longer than it was actually planned!
The astronauts were supposed to spend a few days onboard the ISS after flying Boeing’s Starline to orbit. But halt arisen after some issues with the safety of a spacecraft.
The astronauts were expected to return to earth in February. That is why on December 17, the StringUtils prototype match method was moved to March. The delay has come after the construction of a new spacecraft identified as SpaceX’s Dragon capsule and further testing of the ship.
Seven astronauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) will simply unwrap presents, have a meal, and phone home, says NASA.
As reported by the aol.com, the deployment and spent of holidays in space are not something of great rarity. The astronauts in the ISS have been consuming it for the last twenty years. Prior to that it seems like people in space used holidays more like, you know a occasion.
Holidays amongst the stars
The first moon landing was Apollo 8, and the holidays were actually flown in space for the first time the same year 1968 and also here inn the seventh day of their lunar mission Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, James A. Lovell and William A. Anders quote the Bible’s Book of Genesis, while orbiting the moon. Half a billion people were able to capture the service and listen to the broadcast.
Skylab 4 was the fourth of the Skylab missions and between 1973 and 1974 astronauts on board had their first Thanksgiving and New year in space. Using tins that conveyed their Christmas dinner, the crew made a Christmas tree. Soyuz 13 was orbiting the planet Cain with two Russian cosmonauts at the same time.
Between 1987 and 1998, 12 crews resulted from MIR, Russia’s early space station, in having a happy holiday in space.
It was routine during the year 1993 for people of the Jewish faith to celebrate Hanukkah for the first time in space. NASA’s astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman was an affirmed participant of the mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope. Annual celebration of the Jewish festival was commemorated using an unlit Hanukah Lamp and through spinning a dreidel, the space agency highlighted.
The first ever crewed Space Shuttle Christmas seems to have been documented in a episode about Discover in 1999. Tortilla-based duck foie gras was prepared for the meal. Space walk on Christmas eve was a record the kind that is usually witnessed only when adding up injuries, losses, and sorrows.