The crew of Expedition 66, on duty at the International Space Station, entered the year 2022 in space. A member of the team, who celebrated the new year by eating together, shared a time-lapse video of those moments on Twitter.
While most of us bid farewell to 2021 with family and loved ones, astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station, traveling 260 miles (418 km) above Earth at 17,500 mph (28,000 km/h), greeted the new year very differently. NASA observes 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets every day. Expedition 66crew members of Reja Chari, Tom Marshburn, Kayla Barron and Mark Vande Hei, Matthia Maurer of the European Space Agency (ESA) and Anton Shkaplerov and Pytor Dubrov of Roscosmos; He said ‘hello’ to 2022 on the space station and became the 37th crew member to enter the new year in space.
The crew celebrated the arrival of the new year with a traditional Saarland dinner hosted by Maurer. those moments your video Maurer shared his new year message on his personal Twitter account.
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In his post, Maurer said, “Happy New Year and 2022 to you all. the best I wish! Cosmic greetings and #Cosmic Kisses. See you next year!” used the phrases.
In a video shared by NASA about entering the new year in space, Marsburn “To have the perspective to see so many countries is a privilege “ saying, “We can go from one end of the Earth to the other in a matter of minutes, and it really tells us that all the people of the world together It feels like it’s coming.” recorded as. Chari on the subject “We see the sunrise many times a day, so it’s pretty cool to think about the fact that every time we see the sunrise, people wake up to a new year, ” said.
If Matthias “I’m looking forward to next year” said and “All the science, all the experiments we want to conduct here will be a great start to the new year!” he added. On the other hand, while the crew of Expedition 66 isn’t the first to welcome the new year in space, it’s the only one to enter the new year in space. ‘not being’ It was a first for him.
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Elsewhere in orbit, Zhai Zhigang, Wang Yaping, and Ye Guangfu, three members of China’s Shenzhou 13 mission; planned to be completed in 2022. At the Tiangong space station celebrated the new year together. In addition, 12 crew members aboard Russia’s former space station Mir and a crew aboard Skylab, the United States’ first orbital workshop, welcomed the new year in space.