Thanksgiving Message From Space Station Crew

By  //  November 26, 2013

crew gives tour of station's galley

ISS-GREETING-180-2ABOVE VIDEO: Aboard the Earth-orbiting International Space Station, NASA astronauts Rick Mastracchio and Mike Hopkins, both Expedition 38 flight engineers, send down their best wishes for a happy Thanksgiving.

Their Russian crewmates, Commander Oleg Kotov and Flight Engineers Sergey Ryazanskiy and Mikhail Tyurin, show off the station’s galley where the crew will be preparing and enjoying a Thanksgiving meal. The six men are conducting about 200 research experiments and scientific investigations aboard the orbiting laboratory.