Four astronauts aboard the International Space Station on Thursday sent a special, long-distance Thanksgiving message home.
“Our hearts and prayers go out to those that are serving our country not at home for this Thanksgiving, and that they are able to make it special where they are just like we’re going to,” Expedition 53 Commander Randy Bresnik said on Thursday in a video produced by NASA.
“We’ll appreciate the next Thanksgiving with our families that much more having missed this one,” he added.
Happy Thanksgiving to you, from space! We’ve got a long-distance Thanksgiving message from the crew living and working on @Space_Station. Watch: https://t.co/8jixvrjadn #HappyThanksgiving pic.twitter.com/k2j92o7VQi
— NASA (@NASA) November 23, 2017
Bresnik, along with NASA’s Joe Acaba and Mark Vande Hei, as well as the European Space Agency’s Paolo Nespoli, said they had rationed turkey, cornbread dressing, candied yams, and a “cran-apple” desert for the occasion.
“These are all things that remind us a little bit of home and are kind of traditional,” Bresnik continued.
Bresnik and Nespoli are set to conclude their five-and-a-half month mission on the station on Dec. 14 when they are scheduled to land in Kazakhstan.
Acaba and Vande Hei are to remain in orbit until February.
