Astronaut gets special ice cream delivery in space for 50th birthday
The Hindu
The shipment arrived just a few days ahead of the first of three spacewalks
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 on August 30 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 on August 29 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. The shipment arrived just a few days ahead of the first of three spacewalks. Starting September 3, the two Russians on board will perform back-to-back spacewalks to outfit a new laboratory that arrived in July.
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