The space agency is looking to maintain human presence in the microgravity environment as it transitions to commercial stations.

NASA astronauts Sunita "Suni" Williams and Barry "Butch" Wilmore have reached their six-month milestone of being stranded on the International Space Station, despite initially planning to stay for just eight days.

It was was crafted with excess hardware, cargo bags, and recently-delivered Santa hats. The post Stranded astronaut makes reindeer out of random items on space station appeared first on Talker.

The crew launched to the ISS in June for a week-long mission but will end up spending an unplanned nine months in space.