Happy New Year from the International Space Station
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Stocktrek Images/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — While you may ring in the New Year just once, astronauts at the International Space Station will be celebrating 16 times.
The ISS, which is in low Earth orbit, will be over midnight somewhere on earth 16 times Wednesday, according to a calculation by astronauts on board the station.
“We plan to celebrate New Year’s sixteen times with our comrades, our people down on Earth that are doing it at that very moment, so we’re going to do the same thing, that’s our plan,” Barry Wilmore, commander of Expedition 42, said in a New Year’s video message.
While the astronauts have plenty of celebrating to do on Wednesday, it won’t include 16 champagne toasts.
There’s no bubbly at the ISS, so instead, the team of six astronauts — including Americans, Russians and one Italian — will celebrate with fruit juice.
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