Astronauts shared pictures of their Christmas celebrations from space

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Reportedly the crew at the international Space Station (ISS) shared snippets of their christmas celebration from space. Currently, the team of Expedition 70, a long-duration space mission consisting of astronauts from multiple countries, is at ISS. As per Space.com, the current crew at ISS consists of USA’s Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O’Hara, Andreas Mogensen from Denmark, Satoshi Furukawa from Japan, and Konstantin Borisov, Oleg Kononenko, and Nikolai Chub from Russia.

Accordingly Jasmin Moghbeli shared multiple pictures of her fellow astronauts dressed in Santa hats on instagram and wrote, “Merry christmas from the ISS! While I especially miss my friends and family back home this time of year, I wouldn’t trade the unique memories I’m making with my space family. We have found little ways to make the holidays feel like the holidays up here. Later today, we will all share a holiday meal and decorate cookies together.”

Astronaut Loral O’Hara shared a long post on X about the Expedition 70 mission and mentioned, “Christmas Day was peaceful – a quiet morning of breakfast and some music by the tree to start, christmas cookie decorating and a big midday feast later. Getting to share the holiday with my crewmates was both special and fun, as was chatting with the team in Mission Control Center, who gave up their own holiday weekends to support us.” Moghbeli spoke to The Times of israel about her space festivities and said, “In my household, we celebrate both christmas and Hanukkah, so I’ve brought some items for both to celebrate with my family. I’ve got a christmas ornament with a picture of the four of us together and also my husband and little girls helped make a felt menorah with lights for each night that I can pin on to celebrate with them.”

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