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How Do Astronauts Celebrate Thanksgiving On The Space Station?
universetoday.com ^
| on November 27, 2014
| Elizabeth Howell
Posted on 11/27/2014 11:28:28 AM PST by BenLurkin
NASA, which is responsible for supplying the three astronauts using the American segment of the space station, generally allocates four pounds of food per crew member per day (including packaging), according to Vickie Kloeris, food system manager for the station. Astronauts can also bring a little bit of bonus food with them for special treats. The food isn’t sent up as meal plans, but as different kinds (meats, vegetables, and the like) that the astronauts can assemble at will.
“We don’t have a set-aside meal for Thanksgiving. but they do have all these products available to choose from,” Kloeris said in the interview. “Crew members do know that they’re going to be on orbit during the holidays, [so] they often put special items in their bonus containers with the holidays in mind.”
Kloreis said she couldn’t reveal what Expedition 42 has in its grab boxes, but in the past astronauts have brought up items such as cranberry sauce or icing/frosting to put on cookies in orbit.
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Video at the link.
"Mmmmmmm.....Irradiated Turkey."
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posted on
11/27/2014 11:28:28 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Vodka and Tang shooters?
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posted on
11/27/2014 11:35:43 AM PST
by
ErnBatavia
(It ain't a "hashtag"....it's a damn pound sign. ###)
To: BenLurkin; Chode; SgtBob; B4Ranch
Make a plate on Earth, spin it up in a blender and stuff it in the squeeze tube, fill another tube with some Wine and there You go!
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posted on
11/27/2014 11:36:10 AM PST
by
mabarker1
(congress, The Opposite of Progress.)
To: BenLurkin; All
They kiss under missle toe? Oh, that’s Christmas!
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posted on
11/27/2014 11:37:31 AM PST
by
j.argese
(Not anymore!)
To: ErnBatavia
That's pre-dinner cocktail's while the food bag heats up!
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posted on
11/27/2014 11:37:35 AM PST
by
mabarker1
(congress, The Opposite of Progress.)
To: BenLurkin
They are sucking Turkey paste from one tube and dressing paste from another, cranberry from another.
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posted on
11/27/2014 11:38:14 AM PST
by
Red_Devil 232
((VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!))
To: ErnBatavia
Vodka and Tang is actually known as a ‘Yuri Gagarin’.
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posted on
11/27/2014 11:40:45 AM PST
by
hoagy62
("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered..."-Thomas Paine. 1776)
To: mabarker1
100%
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posted on
11/27/2014 11:43:30 AM PST
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
To: BenLurkin
i’m sure they have their turkey paste tubes.
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posted on
11/27/2014 11:44:31 AM PST
by
Secret Agent Man
( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: BenLurkin
Maybe they are listening to Burl Ives.
To: BenLurkin
I honestly didn’t think there were any Americans on the space station. It does nothing to make Muslims feel good about themselves.
To: ErnBatavia
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posted on
11/27/2014 12:22:30 PM PST
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
( When dems win, it's a mandate. When we win, we must compromise.)
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posted on
11/27/2014 1:47:03 PM PST
by
dsrtsage
(One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%i)
To: ErnBatavia
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posted on
11/27/2014 3:33:01 PM PST
by
rednesss
(fascism is the union,marriage,merger or fusion of corporate economic power with governmental power)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
11/27/2014 4:39:56 PM PST
by
Cecily
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
11/28/2014 4:16:59 AM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
To: a fool in paradise
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posted on
11/28/2014 4:56:21 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
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