Their Christmas was awesome — but all they need is peace on Earth.
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station beamed season’s welcome back to Earth, sending a message of “resilience” to all amid the coronavirus pandemic.
“The resilience of the human soul is something that we can truly celebrate in this unique season,” NASA astronaut Victor Glover said in a video this week.
Resilience is also the name of the SpaceX rocket that brought Glover and three others — individual NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins and Shannon Walker and Japanese space program space astronaut Soichi Noguchi — to the ISS in November.
“We selected that name in tribute to people around the world and to the teams that help make our mission possible during a year that changed all our lives,” Hopkins, the crew commander, said in the clip.
“We’d also like to remember everyone we’ve lost this year.”
Glover added: “There couldn’t be a more fitting name to describe 2020.”
The four joined NASA astronaut Kate Rubins and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov on the space station last month.
The entire crew was off-duty on Christmas and spent the day sharing a holiday meal together and calling family and friends. They also decked the halls of the ISS with festive decorations.
