{"id":21845,"date":"2023-11-23T23:05:24","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T15:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/thanksgiving-in-space-over-the-years\/"},"modified":"2023-11-23T23:05:24","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T15:05:24","slug":"thanksgiving-in-space-over-the-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/thanksgiving-in-space-over-the-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving in space over the years"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The first people to celebrate Thanksgiving in space were the crew of the final Skylab mission (Skylab 4): Gerald P. Carr, Edward G. Gibson, and William R. Pogue. To celebrate the day, Pogue and Gibson completed a 6 1\/2 hour space walk (yes, even when it\u2019s a holiday on the ground doesn\u2019t mean the astronauts get a day off). To make it worse, Carr was stuck in the docking adaptor during the walk and had no access to food. Afterwards, even though there was no themed food for the occasion, they made up for it and consumed two meals worth of food. The lack of themed food would change for future missions.<\/p>\n

Twelve years passed at NASA before the next crew would spend time in space during Turkey Day and that time the crew would actually have turkey to eat for the occasion. On STS-61B in 1985, the 7 person crew celebrated Thanksgiving with shrimp cocktail, irradiated turkey, and cranberry sauce. <\/p>\n

They crew also saw the introduction to a new food item in space. Mexico astronaut Neri Vela introduced tortillas to the crew and it has been a staple of space food ever sense. Why? Well because it doesn\u2019t produce any crumbs.<\/p>\n

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