How NASA astronauts celebrate Christmas in space
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Russian cosmonauts Elena Serova, Anton Shkaplerov and Alexander Samokutyaev were getting ready to celebrate the festive season on the International Space Station (ISS), Wednesday. ----------------.
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The International Space Station orbits Earth roughly once every 90 minutes.
If skies are clear, the International Space Station will be visible for brief periods of time Friday through Sunday, says NASA.
On Friday, space station can be seen for three minutes starting at 6:38 p.m. The outpost will first be visible 10 degrees above the west-northwest horizon. It will be moving off to the southwest.
On Saturday, space station will be visible for an unusually long six minutes, starting at 5:47 p.m. You'll first see it 10 degrees above the northwest horizon. It will move to the southeast.
On Sunday, space station will be visible for one minute, starting at 6:35 p.m. You'll find the station 13 degrees above the southwest. It will be moving to the south-southwest.
The space station resembles a steadily moving ball bearing in the sky.
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ISS astronauts Barry Butch Wilmore, NASA, Samantha Cristoforetti, ESA and Terry Virts, NASA send Christmas 2014 greetings from the space station to the people of Earth. Credit: NASA/ESA Story/pics expanded. Send holiday tweet to crew below!
There is a long tradition of Christmas greetings from spacefarers soaring around the High Frontier and this year is no exception!
The Expedition 42 crew currently serving aboard the International Space Station has decorated the station for the Christmas 2014 holiday season and send their greetings to all the people of Earth from about 240 miles (400 km) above!
Merry Christmas from the International Space Station! said astronauts Barry Wilmore and Terry Virts of NASA and Samantha Cristoforetti of ESA, who posed for the group shot above.
Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti is in the holiday spirit as the station is decorated with stockings for each crew member and a tree. Credit: NASA/ESA
Its beginning to look like Christmas on the International Space Station, said NASA in holiday blog update.
The stockings are out, the tree is up and the station residents continue advanced space research to benefit life on Earth and in space.
And the six person crew including a trio of Russian cosmonauts, Aleksandr Samokutyayev, Yelena Serova, and Anton Shkaplerov who celebrate Russian Orthodox Christmas, are certainly hoping for and encouraging a visit from Santa. Terry Virts even tweeted a picture of the special space style milk and cookies awaiting Santa and his Reindeer for the imminent arrival!
No chimney up here- so I left powdered milk and freeze dried cookies in the airlock. Fingers crossed, tweeted Virts.
No chimney up here- so I left powdered milk and freeze dried cookies in the airlock. Fingers crossed. Credit: NASA/Terry Virts
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Station Astronauts Send Christmas Greetings from the International Space Station
The space station can normally only be seen within a few hours either side of sunrise or sunset, as the sun reflects off the space station, illuminating it against the darker sky.
The ISS travels at about 17,000 miles per hour, more than 200 miles above the Earths surface, and at times can be the second-brightest object in the night sky, after the Moon.
Unlike aircraft, it has no flashing lights.
First launched in 1998, the space station is roughly the size of a football field.
According to NASA, the structure in its current form now has more inhabitable room than a six-bedroom house. It has two bathrooms and a gym.
Its current crew comprises two American men, two men and one woman from Russia, and one Italian woman.
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Space Station Astronauts Say Merry Christmas and Thank You to the Troops
Space Station astronauts Capt. Barry Wilmore and Col. Terry Virts send a message to the troops wishing them a Merry Christmas and thanking them for their service.
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Space Station Astronauts Offer Christmas Greetings to the World
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As if Santa attached a GoPro camera to his sleigh, a new video reveals the Earth as few have seen it.
Published this week, the time-lapse shows stunning views of the Earth, sunrises, clouds, lightning, auroras, stars, and the International Space Station.
The video was made by European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst, who stitched together 12,500 images captured during his six-month stay on the International Space Station, which orbits 250 miles (400 kilometers) above the surface. (See more aurora photos.)
The ultra-high-definition video "shows the best our beautiful planet has to offer," writes the European Space Agency.
Gerst set up cameras to record the celestial fireworks while he was conducting scientific experiments or helping dock vehicles during a mission called Blue Dot. (See more striking photos from the space station.)
Gerst returned to Earth on November 10, landing in the Kazakh Steppe in a Soyuz spacecraft with two other crew members. While in space he conducted 50 experiments, including installing a special furnace that cools molten metal in mid-air.
The third German to visit the International Space Station, Gerst is a volcanologist and geophysicist by training. (See photos of the space station.)
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Amazing ESA time-lapse video of Earth from the International Space Station
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Samantha Cristoforetti, the Italian ISS astronaut, watching her spoon float away with soup still in it. Photograph: ESA/Nasa
Spare a thought for those far from home this Christmas not least Italys first woman in space, Samantha Cristoforetti, one of the six astronauts orbiting the Earth at 17,200mph in the International Space Station (ISS).
While Cristoforetti will miss out on her traditional family meal, she will have the consolation of cutting-edge cuisine prepared especially for her in a pristine factory on the edge of Turin.
The pre-packed dishes were produced at a small aerospace engineering firm, Argotec , and have been the subject of almost as much experimentation as the spacecrafts pressurised modules, robotic arms and solar arrays.
The companys association with space food stems from its involvement in astronaut training, and began as a bit of joke, says the managing director, David Avino. His firm was helping to train Luca Parmitano, the Italian astronaut on the first mission to be run by the countrys space agency, ASI.
He wanted to take up some dishes that were typical of Italy, said Avino. It was only after Argotec embarked on their preparation that he realised what he had let himself in for.
Special meals could only justify their place in the payload if they helped to boost morale. To do that, they had to be significantly better than the standard astronauts fare produced by the US and Russian space agencies. But making luxury cuisine for astronauts is no easy matter.
Space travel, like air travel, robs food of its flavour. And dishes sent up to the ISS have to keep for long periods: Parmitano was away for five-and-a-half months while Nasa standards demand an eat by date at least 18 months after launch.
Some dishes can be sterilised by thermostabilisation, using heat under pressure. But the more liquid ones have to be freeze-dried, which takes away yet more flavour.
Stefano Polato, Argotecs 33-year-old chef, who also has a restaurant near Padua , said part of the solution lay in scrupulous selection of the ingredients. Take an apple, for example, he said. You can lower the temperature for sterilisation and avoiding killing off the nutrients if you pick one that has the right acidity level. A pH of 3.5 is ideal. You get fewer bacteria and longer conservation. It tastes good too.
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