How astronauts spend Thanksgiving

Astronauts gave thanks and preview their “traditional” space meal in a video greeting from the International Space Station just in time for Thanksgiving…

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The two NASA astronauts, along with Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui, have the day off from their 250-mile-high (400 kilometers) research on Thursday, and will share their Thanksgiving meal with the others aboard the space station: Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko, Oleg Kononenko and Sergey Volkov…

For their day off Thursday, the astronauts will relax and catch some football in the late afternoon — traditionally, although the Russian cosmonauts don’t share their day off, they’ll all gather for the Thanksgiving meal together.

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