If you're wondering what it's like to have Thanksgiving in space, there's no need for that anymore as astronauts at the International Space Station (ISS) recently shared a video previewing their "traditional" space meal.
Turns out, Thanksgiving in space is a lot like what is done here on Earth, with the astronauts feasting on Turkey while even watching some football, according to agency officials.
The NASA astronauts in the video, Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren, had their Thanksgiving on November 26, just like anyone, as revealed in their Thanksgiving video this week.
Their Thanksgiving in space included smoked turkey, rehydratable corn, candied yams and some potatoes.
Other astronauts on board the ISS also include four other astronauts - Kimiya Yui from Japan, and cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko, Oleg Kononenko and Sergey Volkov.
Yui also had the day off at the time the video was made. As for the three Russians did not since they don't celebrate the day. However, NASA officials said all six of them gathered for the Thanksgiving meal in space.
According to Space.com, Kelly and Kornienko have been at the station for eight months for their yearlong mission. They are reportedly preparing for NASA, the Russian space agency and their partners' planned missions to Mars as well as several other far-off destinations.
Click here to check out the astronauts' Thanksgiving Message from Space in this video.
Lindgren wished viewers a happy Thanksgiving in the video from space, adding that he's thankful for everyone who have made his ISS mission possible.
Meanwhile, Kelly said the experience in space has given him "a different perspective on what it means to be citizens of planet Earth."
"Since I've been up here, we've seen so many bad things that often happen down there, we follow that on the news, and it just makes me really thankful to live in a country like the United States that provides us with freedom and opportunity," Kelly said.
"And for me, being a middle-class kid from New Jersey, to just have the privilege to come up here and represent my country like this. This is what I'm thankful for this Thanksgiving," he added.
According to NBC News, this wasn't the first recorded Thanksgiving in space. The first Thanksgiving celebration outside of planet Earth was actually aboard the U.S. Skylab space station in 1973. Meanwhile, the first Thanksgiving in Space aboard the ISS reportedly took place in 2000.
