Spaceflight Now: Space Station/STS-98

Station crew reports Santa sighting

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Posted: December 24, 2000

The first residents of the international space station call Mission Control to make the first sighting of Santa Claus on Christmas Eve. The crew is led by commander Bill Shepherd, with pilot Yuri Gidzenko and flight engineer Sergei Krikalev. Source video: NASA TV (126k, 39sec QuickTime file).

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