Astronauts on board the International Space Station will celebrate New Year's Day 16 times as it repeatedly crosses the globe.
The 'official' New Year starts on the space ship at midnight GMT which is also known as the Universal Time Clock.
However,
Expedition 42 crew, who are travelling at 17,500 miles-per-hour will
pass a point on the earth at the stroke of midnight today a staggering
16 times.
The ISS travels around the globe at 17,500 miles-per-hour and orbits the world 16 times every day
Commander
Barry “Butch” Wilmore and his crew, which includes NASA’s Terry Virts,
Russian cosmonauts Elena Serova, Alexander Samoukutyaev and Anton
Shkaplerov, and European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti,
say they plan to celebrate with fruit juice toasts.
The crew are scheduled to have New Year's Day off.
Barry "Butch" Wilmore, left, and Terry Virts, right, sent a special New Year's message on Nasa TV
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