NASA astronaut Sunita Williams is to mark Thanksgiving in space with 'smoked turkey, mashed potatoes'.
Thanksgiving is a festival celebrated by the people of the US each year on the fourth Thursday of November to mark the blessings and harvests of the year.
Our Crew up here just wanted to say Happy Thanksgiving to all our friends and family who are down on Earth and everyone who is supporting us," Williams said in a video message, shared by NASA on Wednesday.
The astronauts said that NASA has provided them with food items like butternut squash, apples, sardines, and smoked turkey for the occasion.
In an interview with NBC News, Williams shared her plans for the day with other astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS), including Butch Wilmore, Nick Hague and Aleksandr Gorbunov.
She plans to watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and enjoy a lavish feast with "some smoked turkey, some cranberry, apple cobbler, green beans and mushrooms and mashed potatoes."
In June, Williams and Butch Willmore became the first to ride the much-delayed Starliner, developed by Boeing.
What started as an eight-day stay on the International Space Station (ISS) has now turned into eight months in space for Williams and Willmore as the faulty Starliner was declared unfit for human travel by NASA.
While Starliner is back on Earth without a scratch, Williams will be returning to Earth on a SpaceX Dragon capsule by February 2025.
With NASA raising concerns over the two's long space stay, it recently reported that both Williams and Willmore "are safe aboard the space station". Williams has also mentioned that she is "feeling good, working out, and eating right," amidst allegations that she lost weight in space.
The Indian-Origin astronaut celebrated Diwali "from 260 miles above the earth on the ISS".
"According to NASA, "Sunita has spent a cumulative total of 322 days in space, and she is the second woman astronaut with the highest number of spacewalks."
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