A space station astronaut is celebrating her 50th birthday with a special delivery: a supply shipment containing ice cream and other treats. “No one’s ever sent me a spaceship for my birthday before,” Megan McArthur said as she oversaw the cargo delivery.
In this Tuesday, June 25, 2019 file photo made available by NASA, astronaut Megan McArthur poses for a portrait at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The space station astronaut is celebrating her 50th birthday with the coolest present ever _ a supply ship bearing ice cream and other treats. SpaceX’s latest cargo delivery showed up Monday, Aug. 30, 2021 at the International Space Station after a day in transit. Overseeing the automated docking was NASA astronaut Megan McArthur.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A space station astronaut is celebrating her 50th birthday with the coolest present ever — a supply ship bearing ice cream and other treats. SpaceX’s latest cargo delivery showed up Monday at the International Space Station after a day in transit. Overseeing the automated docking was NASA astronaut Megan McArthur.
”No one’s ever sent me a spaceship for my birthday before. I appreciate it,” she radioed after the capsule arrived. Launched Sunday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, the capsule contains lemons, cherry tomatoes, avocados and ice cream for McArthur and her six crewmates, along with a couple tons of research and other gear.Starting Friday, the two Russians on board will perform back-to-back spacewalks to outfit a new laboratory that arrived in July.Then a Japanese-French spacewalking duo will venture out Sept. 12 to install a bracket for new solar panels due to arrive next year.
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