Sunita Williams to celebrate thanksgiving in space With this special meal

Indian-origin NASA astronaut Sunita Williams is set to celebrate Thanksgiving in space with ‘smoked turkey, mashed potato'.

Thanksgiving is observed every year in the US on the fourth Thursday of November to honour the blessings and harvest of the year.

The astronauts shared that NASA has provided them with food items like butternut squash, apples, sardines, and smoked turkey for the occasion.

In a recent interview with NBC News, Williams shared her plans of celebrating the day, along with other astronauts Butch Wilmore, Nick Hague and Aleksandr Gorbunov aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

In June Williams and Butch Willmore became the first to ride the much-delayed Starliner, developed by Boeing.

What began as an eight-day sojourn on the International Space Station (ISS) has now extended to eight months in space for Williams and Willmore as the faulty Starliner was declared unfit for human travel by NASA.