How would you spend your free time on board the International Space Station?
If you’re astronaut Karen Nyberg you might pass the time quilting.
Nyberg is an avid quilter and for her six month stint on the ISS, she took along some of her quilting supplies.
“I actually enjoy sewing and quilting and I am bringing some fabric with me and thread and I’m hoping to create something,” Nyberg said. “I don’t know yet what it will be but that’s part of creativity is that it comes with the feeling of the day so I have the supplies in my hands to create if I get the opportunity and the creative notion to do so.”
“I’m looking forward to the most this time actually living there,” Nyberg told SPACE.com. “I visited space station in 2008 on the space shuttle Discovery, and it was a very, very quick trip, only 14 days and honestly, I don’t really remember a lot of it because it just flew on by so fast.”
Nyberg, 43, is planning on sharing her experiences on board the station with the world using social media, although she has only been using Twitter (where she posts from the account @AstroKarenN) for a little over a month. She is also on Pintrest with the handle: knyberg.
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