The astronauts aboard the International Space Station are ready to break bread for a Thanksgiving meal in orbit.

NASA astronaut Suni Williams said she and her crewmates had the day off to celebrate.

“We packed a lot of food reminiscent of Thanksgiving,” Williams said in an interview with NBC News on Wednesday. “Some smoked turkey, some cranberry, applesauce, green beans and mushrooms and mashed potatoes.”

She added that she wants to watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade before feasting with her American and Russian counterparts.

Williams has been living and working on the International Space Station for nearly six months. She and fellow NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore arrived at the orbiting outpost in early June as test pilots on the first manned flight of Boeing’s Starliner space capsule.

The couple planned to stay on the ISS for only about a week and then return to Earth aboard the Starliner. But problems with the spacecraft forced the duo to stay in orbit for months longer than expected. Wilmore and Williams are scheduled to return home in a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule in February.

The beleaguered Starliner mission was a dramatic, months-long saga for NASA and Boeing. But Williams said she doesn’t see herself as “stranded in space.”

“Our mission control team and management always had the option to return home,” she said. “So yeah, we came here on the Starliner. We’ll come back with a kite, but there was always a plan to get home.”

In recent weeks, NASA has dismissed rumors that Williams had health problems in space. Several news articles suggested that the astronaut had lost significant weight, but the agency’s chief health and medical officer said on November 14 that Williams and the others aboard the space station remained in good health.

Williams told NBC News that she was enjoying her time in orbit and was in good spirits.

“We feel good, exercise and eat right,” she said. “We also have a lot of fun up here. You know, people are worried about us. Really don’t worry about us.”

Despite the problems that arose during the Starliner’s journey – primarily with its engines and helium leaks – the capsule returned smoothly to Earth on September 7 without a crew. Williams said it would have been nice to see the Starliner mission through to completion.

She added that she would not hesitate to fly Starliner into space again once Boeing and NASA corrected the test flight’s errors.

“Maybe not tomorrow because we need to take into account some of the lessons learned,” she said, “but once we see that we are on the right track and have fixed some of the problems that …” we had — absolutely.”