Astronauts Feast on Dehydrated Thanksgiving Dinner in Space After Being Stuck for Extra 5 Months: 'Gonna Be Delicious!'

Clockwise from top left: NASA Astronauts Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore, Don Pettit and Nick Hague.Photo:NASA/Facebook NASA/Facebook The NASA astronauts who are aboard the International Space Station celebrated Thanksgiving in space on Thursday, Nov. 28, complete with turkey, butternut squash and even cranberries.“We have a bunch of food that we’ve packed away that is Thanksgiving-ish,”Sunita “Suni” WilliamstoldNBC News. “Some smoked turkey, some cranberry, apple cobbler, green beans and mushrooms and mashed potatoes.

Astronauts Have Already Been in Space for Over 6 Months. Now Their Return Has Been Delayed Again, NASA Says

Photo:MIGUEL J. RODRIGUEZ CARRILLO/AFP via Getty MIGUEL J. RODRIGUEZ CARRILLO/AFP via Getty Suni WilliamsandButch Wilmorewill have to wait a bit longer to return to Earth. On Tuesday, Dec. 17,NASA announcedthat the spacecraft that will ferry four astronauts to the International Space Station to retrieve Williams and Wilmore —who have been in space since June— won’t be ready to launch until “no earlier than late March 2025.” The veteran astronauts were originally slated to return sometime in February,NASA previously said.

Astronauts Whose Return to Earth Was Delayed Make the Most of Their Holiday Season with Festive Photo from Space

Don Pettit and Suni Williams.Photo:NASA NASA Christmasfromouter space! In the image, Williams, 59, can be seenwearing Santa hatswith a fellow astronaut while speaking on a ham radio inside the International Space Station’s Columbus laboratory module. “Another day, another sleigh,” the research institute in Houston wrote in its caption. Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer​​, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.

At Least 10 Dead, Including 2 Young Brothers, in New Year’s Day Shooting in Montenegro

A gunman went on a deadly, 30-minute rampage in Montenegro on New Year’s Day, killing 12 people in the small Balkan nation, including two children and the shooter’s own sister, authorities said.The shooter, identified as Aleksandar Aco Martinovic, 45, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound following an intense manhunt,Reutersreports.The massacre, considered one of Montenegro’s deadliest mass shootings, began at a tavern in the city of Cetinje in southern Montenegro, according toRTCG,the country’s national broadcast station.

At Least 13 People Dead, 28 Injured After Bus Plunges Down 160-Foot Gorge

Bus crash in Colombia on Jan. 3, 2025.Photo:RAUL ARBOLEDA/AFP via Getty RAUL ARBOLEDA/AFP via Getty At least 13 people were killed and 28 injured after a bus plummeted down a 160-foot gorge in Colombia earlier this week, authorities said. María Constanza García Alicastro, Colombia’s minister of transport, shared details of the tragedy onX (formerly Twitter)on Friday, Jan. 3. She wrote that the incident occurred on Friday in the early morning hours in the municipality of Tangua on the “road that connects Pasto with Ipiales.