Space station crew celebrates Thanksgiving 400 km from Earth
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station celebrated Thanksgiving on Friday, with a dinner of turkey and space-grown lettuce as they orbited the Earth at an altitude of 400 kilometres. The meal, including mashed potatoes, corn bread, and cranberry-apple dessert, was delivered to the $100-billion space laboratory as a part of the 3,500-kg cargo resupply by NASA-operated Cygnus spacecraft.