“Just like back home, we have a custom here to put up a New Year tree and decorate the interior of the area station to commemorate the New Year. Today, we will show you how to do it under zero-gravity conditions,” Russian cosmonautSergey Prokopyev said in a video message from Roscosmos (opens in new tab) on Thursday (Dec. 29), with translation supplied by state media service provider TASS (opens in new tab). How Santa will go to astronauts on the International Space Station (video)Российские космонавты в невесомости украсили МКС под Новый год: https://t.co/iehc5iNMNBВидео: Роскосмос pic.twitter.com/0XMblQ0JClDecember 29, 2022See moreIn a NASA video published last week, Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata vowed to take an image of the very first orbital dawn of 2023 in one of the nearby modules in the ISS Kibo module, also supplied by Japan.The U.S. astronauts have actually been quiet on social media throughout the holiday season, however in the meantime, NASA uploaded a few images on Flickr (opens in brand-new tab) of the crew drifting around the space station with Santa hats, stockings and holiday sweaters.NASA astronaut Nicole Mann, using a Santa hat, positions in front of the International Space Station cupola.