The six NASA astronauts who’re dwelling off planet in the meanwhile simply beamed a particular birthday message all the way down to their dwelling nation.Mike Barratt, Matt Dominick, Tracy Caldwell Dyson, Jeanette Epps, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore every took a flip on the mic, saying just a few phrases concerning the Fourth of July from their perch aboard the Worldwide House Station (ISS), about 250 miles (400 kilometers) above Earth.”The Fourth of July at all times jogs my memory of the freedoms that we proceed to battle for every single day, everywhere in the world,” Epps stated within the new video, which NASA launched on Wednesday (July 3).4 males and two girls float aboard the worldwide area station, with an american flag within the backgroundRELATED STORIES:— Worldwide House Station: Every little thing you want to know concerning the orbital laboratory— Starliner: Boeing’s next-generation spaceship for astronauts— Astronauts have fun July 4 in area and honor Houston”For me, the Fourth of July is only a reminder of the fortitude that it took for our forefathers and their households to not solely have the need to battle for our freedom, but in addition the braveness to take action,” Dyson stated.Barratt got here ready, holding copies of the Declaration of Independence, the primary draft of the U.S. Structure and the Invoice of Rights.”These are sacred phrases that each American must be conversant in,” Barratt stated.”They’re sacred as a result of they supplied a framework for this concept of an impartial, multicultural democracy to type and really perform,” he added. “And we’re nonetheless constructing our extra good union; everyone is aware of that. However let’s recommit, and, as we do this, let’s have fun the Fourth of July and have fun the good nation that we reside in.”Barratt, Dominick and Epps got here to the ISS in early March on SpaceX’s Crew-8 mission. Dyson arrived just a few weeks later aboard a Russian Soyuz automobile. All 4 are spending about six months aboard the orbiting lab.Williams and Wilmore are shorter-term residents; they arrived on June 6 on the first-ever crewed flight of Boeing’s Starliner capsule. That mission, often known as Crew Flight Check (CFT), was anticipated to final simply 10 days or so, nevertheless it has been prolonged a number of instances as NASA and Boeing examine helium leaks and thruster points which have cropped up on Starliner. There may be at present no goal departure date for CFT.The six NASA astronauts aren’t the ISS’s solely present residents. Cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin and Oleg Kononenko are additionally dwelling on the ISS, however they didn’t take part within the July 4 video message.