Traveling around the Earth at a speed of more than 28.000 kilometers per hour, the crew of the International Space Station (ISS) celebrated the coming of the New Year ... 16 times.
The multinational orbital complex inclpays a full orbit of the Earth every 90 minutes and sees sunrise and sunset 16 times a day.
Officially, 2015 was launched for 02.00 station in 1 January, midnight Greenwich Mean Time.
At that time, the crew was supposed to be asleep, but made a New Year's Exclusion.
The new year's sessions were made with a fruit juice, she said NASA.
The next major day for the station will be 6 January, Feast of the Epiphany in Greece, so plans to launch the Dragon ship carrying supplies.
They live at the station during this time two American astronauts, an Italian woman and three Russian cosmonauts.
