Astronauts enjoy a zero-gravity Thanksgiving dinner on the International Space Station

A world crew of astronauts celebrated Thanksgiving in an uncommon approach yesterday.

The group loved a particular 'spacegiving feast' of rehydrated meals, on board the Worldwide Area Station.

In printed by Nasa, the six astronauts might be seen having fun with their meal, which included rehydrated turkey, stuffing, potatoes and greens.

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A world crew of astronauts celebrated Thanksgiving in an uncommon approach yesterday. In printed by Nasa, the six astronauts might be seen having fun with their meal, which included rehydrated turkey, stuffing, potatoes and greens

THANKSGIVING IN SPACE 

The group of six astronauts loved a particular 'spacegiving feast' of rehydrated meals, on board the Worldwide Area Station.

The feast concerned a pouch of rehydrated turkey, candied yams, cornbread dressing, mashed potato and inexperienced beans. 

The meal was rounded off with cherry blueberry cobbler for dessert, Nasa Commander Shane Kimbrough stated.

The meal was rounded off with cherry blueberry cobbler for dessert, Nasa Commander Shane Kimbrough stated in a preview assertion made every week earlier.

Kimbrough defined within the video how the crew had been going to take pleasure in a lot of the identical issues individuals on Earth could be consuming, in a barely completely different kind.

He stated the crew could be working all day then having fun with an enormous dinner within the night.

Holding up a pouch of turkey, he stated 'this is our turkey proper right here, it will be in a pouch so we'll warmth this up and it will style actually good.

'We have got cherry blueberry cobbler for dessert in order that's going to be superior,' he added.

'One among our side-dishes is candied yams,' he stated, holding up one other pouch earlier than transferring on to indicate the cornbread dressing, inexperienced beans and mashed potatoes.

Mission Management despatched dwell soccer video games as much as the ISS for the crew to look at.

The meal was rounded off with cherry blueberry cobbler for dessert, Nasa Commander Shane Kimbrough (pictured) stated in a preview assertion made every week earlier

The crew of six has been on board the ISS since 30 October, when three Nasa astronauts blasted off on the 'Expedition 50' mission that may final till 20 April subsequent yr. 

Different crew members embody Roscosmos flight engineers Andrey Borisenko, Sergey Ryzhikov and Oleg Novitskiy, ESA flight engineer Thomas Pesquet and Nasa flight engineer Peggy Whitson. 

Development of the ISS started on 20 November 1998.

It helps a crew of as much as six, with crews cut up into teams of three.

The station orbits at a top of about 255 miles (410km) and has a complete mass of about 990,000 kilos (450,000kg) and has dwelling house roughly equal to a five-bedroom home.

It completes an orbit of Earth each 92.91 minutes.

Holding up a pouch of turkey, he stated 'this is our turkey proper right here, it will be in a pouch so we'll warmth this up and it will style actually good. 'We have got cherry blueberry cobbler for dessert in order that's going to be superior,' he added

COULD MEALWORMS BE THE FUTURE FOOD OF ASTRONAUTS?

Think about the scene: you've got simply embarked in your mission to Mars and, on your first meal of a several-months lengthy journey, you've got acquired a reasonably unappetising plate of beetle larvae.

This, reasonably unappealingly, is a situation Chinese language scientists say may very well be the way forward for house exploration.

They declare mealworms are excessive in protein and are perfect for lengthy house journeys, and to show it they shut three volunteers away for 105 days and positioned them on a food regimen of simply larvae and vegetation.

The volunteers, one man and two ladies, lived inside an enclosed biosphere on the Beijing College of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

In response to the South China Morning Publish, the thought has been met with criticism within the West the place critics say, regardless of the excessive protein content material, having to eat mealworms would decrease morale in astronauts owing to their unappealing look and style.

Meals on the ISS at the moment, though nonetheless not capable of match that loved on Earth, has improved tremendously from the early days of spaceflight within the 1960s. The place as soon as astronauts had been restricted to tubes of pasted meals, now they no less than have meals that you'd discover again on Earth (proven)

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