NewzVille Desk
Aboard the International Space Station, Crew members celebrate the festive season in a unique way while living and working at the orbiting laboratory. Each crew member, including the current Expedition 72, spends time enjoying the view of Earth from the space station, privately communicating with their friends and families, and sharing a joint meal with their expedition crewmates, while continuing experiments and station maintenance.
Here are some of the Nostalgic moments on Holiday season:
NASA astronauts John Grunsfeld and Steven Smith pictured wearing Santa hats on the flight deck of space shuttle Discovery on 24 December, 1999, shortly before the two mission specialists conducted a spacewalk to perform work on the agency’s Hubble Space Telescope (Credits: NASA)
European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti pictured aboard the International Space Station on Dec. 20, 2014, during Expedition 42 (Credits: NASA)
NASA astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman pictured with a dreidel during Hanukkah in December 1993 (Credits: NASA)
Expedition 4Crew members NASA astronauts Daniel Bursch and Carl Walz along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Yuri Onufrienko pose for a Christmas photo in December 2001 (Credits: NASA)
Expedition 70 NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli’s felt menorah and dreidel that she used to celebrate Hanukkah in December 2023 (Credits: NASA)
The rising Earth greeted the Apollo 8 astronauts William Ander, Frank Borman, and James Lovell on Dec. 24, 1968, as they approached from behind the Moon after the fourth nearside lunar orbit (Credits: NASA)
