Out of this world ways astronauts celebrate holidays in space
There may not be family feasts or boughs of holly, but astronauts still manage to find creative ways to celebrate holidays while theyโre orbiting the Earth. Come Nov. 15, four astronauts will launch on SpaceXโs Dragon spacecraft atop a Falcon 9 rocket and head for the International Space Station, where theyโll stay for about six months. Space Station (@Space_Station) November 25, 2019Last year, NASA astronauts Christina Koch, Jessica Meir and Andrew Morgan were happy to let Russian astronauts Aleksandr Skvortsov and Oleg Skripochka and Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano in on their American traditions. New YearโsAccording to Kelly, New Yearโs is actually a bigger deal than Christmas on the International Space Station because all the astronauts on board celebrate it at the same time. You can hear his International Space Station rendition of the Irish ballad here.