Christmas presents, roast turkey, and laundry detergent were included in the shipment of items sent to the International Space Station.
The detergent was made by the company that owns Tide and is being used for a scientific experiment.
The astronauts aboard the International Space Station will experiment with a detergent that can be used in space.
The partnership with Tide was announced back in June, and according to Proctor and Gamble, astronauts on the International Space Station currently wear clothing several times before just replacing it with a new set. They receive new clothing via shipments from Earth.
NASA will use the experiments on Tide's detergent to figure out how astronauts will wash their clothes on future missions to the moon and Mars.
160 pounds of clothing per crew member per year are sent to the International Space Station without a laundry solution, according to a press release.
Mark Sivik, senior director and research fellow at Proctor and Gamble, told Space.com that laundry is a must-have once you are in space.
According to Space.com, NASA says that astronauts would need 500 pounds of clothing to make the trip to Mars.
Sivik told Space.com that the development here is designed to work within the space station's closed-loop system.
Tide plans to ship stain-removal products, including Tide To Go wipes and Tide To Go Pens, for astronauts to test in microgravity next year.
Humans will return to the moon in 25 years. It plans to build a lunar base to send astronauts to Mars.
