The crew of International Space Station will be able to celebrate New Year fifteen times crossing each time zone.
Now there are six people in the crew including two people from Russia: Anton Shkaplerov and Alexander Misurkin and three Americans: Scott Tingle, Joseph Acaba and Mark Vande Hei and one Japanese cosmonaut Norishige Kanai, TASS informs. They will start celebrations on December 31 at 6:26 Moscow time flying over the Pacific Ocean’s Islands between Australia and New Zealand.
They will continue congratulations one and a half hour later following Tokyo time zone flying over Australia. They will accept congratulations for the third time somewhere between Africa and South America following Moscow time. The New Year will come to Washington at 8 o’clock when they will be flying over Brazil and an hour later to Houston. By this time, the International Space Station will fly over Australia again.
New Year will start at the station when the International Space Station will be over Cape Horn.
Video congratulations are already recorded for the crew by Cosmonautics Museum. The crew will get greetings from traveler Fyodor Konyukhov, singer Diana Arbenina, President of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts Irina Antonova, poetess Vera Polozkova, radio host Sergei Stillavin, scientist and TV host Nikolai Drozdov and other well-known people.
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