• Question: how do you celebrate your birthday in Space?

    Asked by mairrax to Anne, Beth, COLFlight, Jon, Tom on 9 Oct 2015.
    • Photo: Columbus Flight Directors

      Columbus Flight Directors answered on 9 Oct 2015:

      Sergio:
      Hi Mairrax!
      You can do anything you like in space for your birthday, apart going out to play football 🙂
      I think I would spend my birthday enjoying the view of Earth from the amazing cupola, then partying with my astronaut crew mates and also talking on the phone with myu family.

      How would you like to celebrate your b-day in space?

    • Photo: Beth Healey

      Beth Healey answered on 14 Oct 2015:

      As Sergio says as you like! I think it would be awesome to spend a birthday in space, what a great present!!

      I think I would like to take a spacewalk if it was my birthday. It would be great to look back at the earth from outside the station!!

      Like in Antarctica there are no shops in space though so the other crew would have to get creative with the presents!! Here at Concordia the crew made awesome gifts for each other which are in many ways more special that gifts you can buy in a shop! For example on my birthday I was given a lamp made entirely out of soft drink can ring pulls!!
      I also brought some small presents with me from friends and family back home (which astronauts would too). It was really lovely to have these to open as it reminded me of everyone back home.

      What would you do and what present would you like?!

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