Have you ever imagined
spending Christmas in space?

A Christmas beyond the Earth.
In the silence of deep black space,
the Earth glows
like a Christmas light —
quiet, yet unmistakably bright.

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1973 — A handmade Christmas tree on Skylab 4.
Gerald Carr, Edward Gibson, William Pogue
1999 — Santa hats in orbit John Grunsfeld, Steven Smith.
2005 — Holding Christmas stockings.Valery Tokarev, William McArthur
2008 — A shared Christmas meal.
Yuri Lonchakov, Michael Fincke, Sandra Magnus
2011 — Christmas aboard the ISS
Expedition 30 crew.
2012 — Expedition 34 in the Unity node of the ISS.
2014 — Milk and cookies for Santa, left in the airlock.
2015 — A Christmas tree floating in the Cupola.
2019 — Christmas brunch with Expedition 64.
2023 — Expedition 70 inside the ISS.
2024 — Expedition 72 builds a handmade reindeer.
2024 — Don Pettit and Suni Williams take a playful Christmas selfie.