Astronauts In Space Celebrated Christmas With Fruit Cake & Festive Clothes In Zero Gravity

Christmas is finally here. The beautiful festival that puts the magic in the already lovely winter is one that everyone truly awaits. The whole world has gotten covered with the magic of Christmas and this magic isn¡¯t just limited to the blue planet, but also right outside of it.

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Like every year, Christmas is also being celebrated everywhere across the globe and even outside Earth, on the International Space Station. The astronauts Christina Koch, Drew Morgan, and Jessica Meir along with mission commander Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency will be celebrating Christmas this year on the ISS.

Aboard the ISS, NASA shared a video with us with the celebrations that the astronauts have in store for them.

And their celebrations weren¡¯t very different from the ones that we celebrate on Earth. They had stockings, festive clothing, some hot apple cider and hot cocoa (that you see the astronauts consuming in zero gravity), and even some special smoked salmon for dinner (as they already ate Turkey during Thanksgiving)!

However, another thing that they got that completes the Christmas experience was delicious fruit cake. Oddly, Koch wasn¡¯t very excited about it.

Koch said, ¡°We had to come all the way to space to try to get away from fruitcake¡­ but it didn¡¯t work. We got some anyway.¡±

Astronauts also shared about the traditions that they would do with their family when on Earth and how even after being 408 kilometres from Earth, they want to continue those traditions.

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They end the video with them somersaulting together in zero gravity, having a great time.

All these celebrations were part of the current ISS expedition -- Expedition 61. This expedition commenced on October 3rd. They were the crew that conducted the first women-only spacewalk conducting repairs on the exterior of the ISS.

You can check out the full video down here. Merry Christmas and happy holidays everyone!