Happy Thanksgiving from Space! – Holiday Message from the ISS Astronaut

Posted: November 22, 2012 at 7:45 pm




Happy Thanksgiving from Space! - Holiday Message from the ISS Astronaut Cosmonaut Crew
Expedition 34 Thanksgiving Message - Expedition 34 Commander Kevin Ford shares a Thanksgiving message from the International Space Station. Ford demonstrates how the crew will spend the holiday on orbit and describes the menu he and his two crewmates will share on Thursday. Flight Engineers Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin joined Ford to send their best wishes in Russian. SUBSCRIBE to Bright Enlightenment - http://www.youtube.com JOIN the club - http://www.facebook.com More about the International Space Station (ISS) - The International Space Station (ISS) is a habitable artificial satellite in low Earth orbit. It follows the Salyut, Almaz, Skylab and Mir stations as the ninth space station to be inhabited. The ISS is a modular structure whose first component was launched in 1998. Like many artificial satellites, the station can be seen with the naked eye from Earth without any special equipment. The ISS consists of pressurized modules, external trusses, solar arrays and other components. ISS components have been launched by American Space Shuttles as well as Russian Proton and Soyuz rockets. Budget constraints led to the merger of three space station projects with the Japanese Kib #333; module and Canadian robotics. In 1993 the partially built Soviet/Russian Mir-2, the proposed American Freedom, and the proposed European Columbus merged into a single multinational program. The Russian Federal Space Agency (RSA/RKA) is using the ISS as a work site to assemble their next space station ...From:Bright EnlightenmentViews:3 1ratingsTime:05:04More inEducation

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Happy Thanksgiving from Space! - Holiday Message from the ISS Astronaut

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