You're listening to Shortwave from NPR.

Hey everybody, Maddie Sivai here with Shortwave reporter Emily Cuong.

Hey there.

So we know a lot of you are prepping for Thanksgiving.

Brining the turkey, mashing them tatos, making last minute trips to the grocery store,

but six people in the human race got their food delivered weeks ago from a very long distance.

Three, two, one.

On November 2, NASA and Northrop Grumman launched a resupply mission to the International Space Station.

There are six astronauts aboard now. Two of them, Jessica Meir and Christina Cook.

The astronauts we interviewed from space on Shortwave.

Those same ones. On November 4, Jessica and Christina caught this cargo using the station's robotic arm.

The robotic arm is now in motion.

And inside we're all kinds of goodies for the astronauts.

And Signe's capture has been confirmed.

This to protect from radiation, equipment for space walks, and the last shipment of food for their Thanksgiving dinner,

stage weeks in advance by this guy.

Candy Yams, cornbread dressing, mashed potatoes, smoked turkey, cherry blueberry cobbler,

and cran apple dessert.

Dang, that's pretty good for space.

Yeah, I know. That's Ryan Dowdy, food system manager for the International Space Station.

But there was something else.

Tucked into this rocket propelled care package,

...