For the 1st time ever, 8 spacecraft are docked to the International Space Station

An illustration of the International Space Station with labels for the many spacecraft filling its 8 docking ports, including the Cygnus spacecraft, the Progress, and two Soyuz spacecraft.

The space station is feeling like a lot of us in the wake of Thanksgiving — very, very full.

All eight docking ports for spacecraft on the current configuration of the International Space Station (ISS) are fully occupied for the first time in the complex's history, NASA officials said in a statement on Monday (Dec. 1). (Construction of the ISS began in 1998, but the complex didn't have that many ports in the beginning.)