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NASA Spotlights ISS Crew's Homemade Halloween Costumes

A NASA feature on astronauts celebrating Halloween in orbit spread across aggregators and spawned a viral spooky joke online.

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What to know

  • NASA's feature highlights how ISS crew members celebrate Halloween with costumes built from onboard materials, continuing a tradition tied to the station's 25-plus years of continuous human presence.
  • The story was mirrored across Google News aggregators and NASA-affiliated outlets without new reporting added.
  • A Bluesky post reframing the story with a spooky hypothetical about an unexplained knock on the station's hatch drew significant engagement, showing the story's appeal beyond routine space coverage.

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NASA Spotlights ISS Crew's Homemade Halloween Costumes
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How it unfolded 2 developments, newest first · click a bar or a number to jump articlesposts

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    Bluesky post riffs on the story with a spooky hypothetical

    A Bluesky user shared the NASA story alongside a joking line imagining true terror as hearing someone knock on the station's hatch from outside while the whole crew is accounted for inside; the post drew notable engagement.

    “You never know true beauty until you see Earth from space, or true terror until you hear someone knocking on the space station door from outside. You look through the porthole and see an astronaut, but all your crew is inside and accounted for...”
    — c0nc0rdance.bsky.social
    • c0nc0rdance.bsky.social

      “You never know true beauty until you see Earth from space, or true terror until you hear someone knocking on the space station door from outside. You look through the porthole and see an astronaut, but all your crew is inside and accounted for..."

      c0nc0rdance.bsky.socialBluesky8d ago50▲view on Bluesky ↗
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    NASA publishes feature on ISS Halloween costumes

    NASA's website posted "Halloween Aboard the International Space Station," describing how crew members dress up individually or as a group using materials available on the station.

    “they dress up in sometimes spooky, sometimes scary, but always creative costumes, often designed from materials available aboard the space station.”
    — NASA
    1. 2 outlets Halloween Aboard the International Space Station

      first by NASA (.gov), 8d ago · also NASA

    2. 1 outlet Halloween Aboard International Space Station

      first by Mirage News, 9d ago