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Nov 25, 2021 2 mins, 14 secs
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"I'm going to do whatever I can to show how thankful I am for my crewmates," said NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei in a NASA video shared from the International Space Station Monday.

We haven't been up here together that long, but wow it sure has been wonderful already."

The space station will host seven crew members throughout the holiday season.

The international crew includes Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov, NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Thomas Marshburn, Kayla Barron and Vande Hei, and European Space Agency astronaut Matthias Maurer.

"We'll be working but looking forward to an awesome meal together," Barron said.

Chari said he and his family typically go around the table and have each person say what they are thankful for, so he's going to call in "and do that remotely" this year.

The astronauts usually call home to talk with friends, family and loved ones on holidays spent far from home.

Chari also said while Thanksgiving-themed runs like Turkey Trots happen on Earth, he brought special colored headbands for him and the crew to wear as they run off their holiday meal on the space station's treadmill.

Walker, and Rodolfo Neri Vela enjoyed a special meal on the space shuttle Atlantis.

Recently, tortillas were the perfect vehicle for space tacos made using the first chile peppers grown in space.

The first Thanksgiving on the space station took place on November 23, 2000, just three weeks after the trio of NASA astronaut William M.

The space station hosted the largest and most diverse Thanksgiving celebration yet in 2009.

Then, they welcomed six members of the STS-129 space shuttle crew, which brought Charles O.

The 12 crew members represented the United States, Russia, Belgium and Canada, and they celebrated together two days early since the shuttle departed the space station on Thanksgiving itself.

How to host a Thanksgiving dinner in space

How these holidays are marked and celebrated is up to each individual crew, and space veterans tend to share suggestions and ideas with rookies before they go up, NASA astronaut Dr.

It was a busy time on the space station with multiple spacewalks and experiments on the schedule, but the astronauts were able to come together for a special meal that weekend with their international crew members and talk about what Thanksgiving meant to them.

Turkey, stuffing and mashed potatoes are on the standard menu for NASA astronauts in space, but they also saved special treats like smoked salmon and cranberry sauce to share with each other.

For NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins, it was his second Thanksgiving in space after spending the holiday on the station in 2013.

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