Thanksgiving in space: turkey, green beans & even football
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Turkey and football will be the main Thanksgiving headliners up on the International Space Station.
NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough, the station’s commander, is serving as Thanksgiving chef for the six-person crew. He showed off the specialties he’ll be preparing in a video this week.
“It’s going to be a little bit different for us up here in space,” he said, “but I’m going to try to make it as much like home as we can.”
On Thursday — a regular workday for the crew — Kimbrough will warm up pouches of sliced turkey, candied yams, and cherry and blueberry cobbler. He’ll also add water to the bags of dehydrated cornbread dressing, green beans and mushrooms and mashed potatoes.