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Many foods are associated with a traditional American Thanksgiving dinner. But what do you suppose would be on the menu for Thanksgiving in space? Would you have to squeeze turkey paste out of a tube and get gelatin-covered dessert cubes? No. Food has improved since the early days of space flight.

Thanksgiving in Space

sort of imagine life on these space stations like being on the Enterprise (Star Trek).

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Here is a short video from NASA about Thanksgiving in Aero-G.


The video was made in 2020.
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This year's Thanksgiving greetings from the ISS features NASA astronauts Frank Rubio, Josh Cassada, Nicole Mann, and JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata. They say what the holiday means to them.

JAXA is the Japanese space agency.
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