Leaker.com reported at the time. Three years later, a NASA crew had a much more pleasant, but utterly bizarre, experience. They marked Christmas in micro-gravity, floating about the vessel and unwrapping gifts that had been carried on a Japanese cargo spacecraft, according to Space.com.
Celebrations aboard the ISS are as much a tradition as they are down on the Blue Planet, and have been held every single year since 2000.Expedition 1 had arrived on the station just weeks earlier and the ISS has been continuously occupied ever since.And it's not just Christmas that's celebrated aboard the station, as NASA introduced a policy of allowing space parties to mark important calendar dates for crew members no matter their nationality or creed..
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