00:00One of NASA's first moon missions launched on December 21, 1968, meaning those astronauts
00:08were orbiting the lunar landscape on Christmas Day.
00:11In fact, this photo was taken by the Apollo 8 crew on Christmas Eve.
00:15Now we have astronauts aboard the International Space Station year-round.
00:18So what is Christmas like for those brave men and women up there?
00:21Well, it turns out they have their own zero-G traditions.
00:25Years before the Apollo missions, Jingle Bells was the first song to ever play in space.
00:29That was in 1965.
00:31But nearly a decade later, astronauts were celebrating properly aboard Skylab.
00:35Those astronauts constructed a Christmas tree out of empty food containers.
00:39They even had a Christmas feast.
00:41Of course, it was a less traditional, mission-control-approved variety.
00:44In 1993, Geoffrey Hoffman became the first Jewish astronaut to celebrate Hanukkah in
00:49space.
00:50Over the years, gift exchanges have even occurred with loved ones still on Earth as well.
00:54With an arriving cargo craft bringing presents up and hanging stockings that the astronauts
00:58woke up to on Christmas morning.
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