How Do Astronauts Prepare Their Thanksgiving Food In Space? (Video)

Thanksgiving Day is just around the corner and Americans on planet Earth are busy preparing for the celebration -- so do astronauts in space. The astronauts would not like to miss the celebration of Thanksgiving Day. Certainly, they have their own way of rejoicing this much-awaited event.

CTV News reports that NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough, the station's commander, will be the Thanksgiving chef for the six-person crew. "It's going to be a little bit different for us up here in space," said Kimbrough. He further said that he is going to try to make it as much like home as they can.

The space station crew will eat a traditional Thanksgiving meal, but there's nothing traditional about how they prepare it! pic.twitter.com/QHBtOe3s92 — Intl. Space Station (@Space_Station) November 22, 2016

He showed in a video on how he will prepare thanksgiving food this week. In a video, he held packets of food for Thanksgiving. These include turkey, mashed potatoes, green beans, corn-bread dressing, mushrooms, cherry-blueberry cobbler and candied yams. He also noted that one cannot have a Thanksgiving meal without green beans. They will also have sweet tea for their drinks.

To complete their celebration of Thanksgiving Day, the Mission Control would beam up some live football games. Kimbrough will have the second Thanksgiving in space. Meanwhile, American Peggy Whitson will celebrate Thanksgiving in space for the third time, according to Straits Times.

The other members of the crew are one Frenchman and three Russians. On top of their list to be thankful for this Thanksgiving is being safe in space. Meanwhile, NASA would like to share its recipe of its "out of this world" cornbread dressing. You may eat like an astronaut with this recipe. No freeze-drying required.

Eat like an astronaut this Thanksgiving with this cornbread dressing recipe that astronauts on station may eat: https://t.co/od0qwNqs1D pic.twitter.com/UtBL3Fm7nA — Intl. Space Station (@Space_Station) November 21, 2016