International Space Station Astronauts Wont Miss Out On Easter Feast

8:07 AM 04/21/2019 | US

Evie Fordham | Politics and Health Care Reporter

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) wont miss out on an Easter feast Sunday, although their holiday meal may not look quite like it would at home on planet Earth.

The six station residents greeted a private cargo ship on Good Friday that brought Easter meal choices including pork chops with gravy, smoked turkey, asparagus, potatoes au gratin, lemon meringue pudding and apricot cobbler, reported The Associated Press.

Space station astronaut Anne McClain operated a robot arm to guide in the Northrop Grummans Cygnus capsule as the ISS traveled over France, according to the AP. (RELATED: Hacker Group Possibly Based In Ukraine Posts Info Of More Than One Thousand Law Officers)

Flying robots, tiny student-research satellites, lab mice and more than 800 meals were also contained in the capsule, reported the Daily Mail.

NASA astronaut Anne McClain, a member of the International Space Station (ISS) expedition 58/59, gestures as she boards the Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft shortly before the launch at the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Dec. 3, 2018. (SHAMIL ZHUMATOV/AFP/Getty Images)

The shipment took a day and a half to make it to the ISS after setting off from Wallops Island, Virginia, Wednesday, reported the AP. The Cygnus capsule will remain anchored to the space station until July, when it will return to Earth with trash from the ISS.

McClain, two other Americans, two Russians and one Canadian will be spending Easter Sunday on the ISS, reported the AP. Perhaps there will be another space station Easter egg hunt like the one organized by astronaut Chris Hadfield in 2013, according to Yahoo! News.

It appears that Im as bad at juggling in weightlessness as I am on Earth. Hopefully Im better at hiding them… pic.twitter.com/m3pr0ZU4Hd

— Chris Hadfield (@Cmdr_Hadfield) March 31, 2013

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