(24 Dec 2024)
RESTRICITION SUMMARY:
++GRAPHICS ON SCREEN AT SOURCE++
NASA – MUST CREDIT NASA
Space – Recorded 23 December 2024
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Suni Williams, NASA astronaut:
"Welcome to the International Space Station as we get ready for the Christmas holidays. It’s a great time of year up here. We get to spend it with all of our family up on the International Space Station. There’s seven of us up here, and so we’re going to get to enjoy company together. And one of the best things that I like about Christmas is the preparation and just getting ready in the anticipation, everybody getting together and preparing stuff and just getting ready for the holiday. And a couple little things we have here with us to just prepare, which will be sort of fun in a couple of days."
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Nick Hague, NASA astronaut:
"You know, in Christmas time, the holiday season, it’s about spending time with friends and family and loved ones. You know, this year we’re going to be in orbit away from them. So we want to send our heartfelt Merry Christmas and we hope you have a wonderful holiday. I want to also mentioned that, you know, we’re not the only ones that are going to spend time away from our families over the holidays. There’s a huge team on the ground that’s going to support us in mission controls around the globe over the holidays and I want to thank them for the sacrifices that they’re making. Together we work hand-in-hand with the ground every day and over the holidays, we keep this mission going. Merry Christmas."
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Don Pettit, NASA astronaut:
"And Christmas is synonymous with food and feasting and boy, do we have a feast packaged up here."
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Butch Wilmore, NASA astronaut:
"And of course, Christmas is Christ. Hallelujah as savior is born."
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Suni Williams, NASA astronaut:
"So from all of us, to all of you, Merry Christmas."
STORYLINE:
NASA astronauts Sunita "Suni" Williams, Don Pettit, Nick Hague, and Barry "Butch" Wilmore shared a holiday greeting and expressed well wishes to those back home on Earth.
Williams and Wilmore have been stranded in space since June.
The two test pilots planned on being away just a week or so when they blasted off June 5 on Boeing’s first astronaut flight to the International Space Station.
Their mission grew from eight days to eight months after NASA decided to send the company’s problem-plagued Starliner capsule back empty in September.
Now the pair won’t return until the end of March or even April because of a delay in launching their replacements, according to NASA.
===========================================================
Clients are reminded to adhere to all listed restrictions and to check the terms of their licence agreements. For further assistance, please contact the AP Archive on: Tel +44(0)2074827482 Email: info@aparchive.com.
Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/
You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/149e948e50eb45129f16167917955ce2
Author: AP Archive
Go to Source
News post in December 29, 2024, 9:05 pm.
Visit Our Sponsor’s:
News Post In – News
