An astronaut currently spending this season aboard the International Space Station sent a heartfelt Chanukah greeting from 250 miles above Earth. Jasmin Moghbeli, NASA astronaut and mission commander of SpaceX Crew-7, has been in space since late August. She and her fellow crew members are engaged in a six-month mission.
In a video shared on X, Moghbeli showed a paper menorah affixed to the Space Station’s window, while she spun a dreidel in zero gravity.
“Happy Hanukkah from the International Space Station,” she said in the video.
During a press briefing in July, Moghbeli shared that her family had created the menorah to help her celebrate Chanukah while being away from home.
A skilled AH-1W Super Cobra pilot and Marine Corps test pilot, Moghbeli has completed over 150 combat missions and accumulated more than 2,000 flight hours across 25 different aircraft, as noted by NASA. She was selected as an astronaut in 2017.
Moghbeli launched to the International Space Station as the commander of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft on August 26, 2023, and successfully docked the following day.
{Matzav.com}
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