To get us in the festive spirit, we spend some time looking at the history of crewed space flight at Christmas. We even added some jingle bells to help get you in the mood.

Further Reading:

A brief history of humans spending Christmas in space: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-18/brief-history-of-humans-spending-christmas-in-space/9235812

Christmas on Skylab (Andrew LePage) - https://www.drewexmachina.com/2014/12/24/christmas-1973-on-skylab/

Christmas 2000 on the ISS (Andrew LePage) - https://www.drewexmachina.com/2015/12/24/christmas-2000-on-the-iss/

STS 103: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archives/sts-103.html

STS 61: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archives/sts-61.html

Christmas 97 on Mir: https://www.windows2universe.org/headline_universe/holly_mir.html&edu=high&dev=1the

Full show notes: https://spaceandthingspodcast.com/podcast/stp-1-the-podcast-has-launched-d6e92-mpyzr-xswpe-5x8j3-3z645-xmxzf-a3ag7-5zrzp-rlrwg-nfkpj-s6pl3-64ppm-2z4ah-g8522-cfjmh-ajc53

Image credit: NASA

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