NASA astronauts recreate Times Square's ball drop in zero gravity | Watch

Joining New Year celebrations from 220 miles above earth, astronauts aboard International Station (ISS) recreated iconic ball drop moment in ir own unique fashion. While New York City tradition sees a giant crystal ball descends down a flag pole at stroke of midnight, ‘ edition’ of tradition featured astronauts “drop” a globe in zero gravity. A video of Expedition 64 crew wishing people Happy New year while floating inside ir “ lab” has w created a stir on internet.

Recreating famous tradition

Shared on Twitter by official p of International Station (ISS), video features five-member crew extending greetings on occasion of  New Year. “One of most famous New Year’s Eve tradition is watching ball drop at Times Square,” a member starts by saying. 

However, y assert that since it was zero gravity situations, y’ve created ir own version. y also added that one of main aims behind it was to inspire people to celebrate occasion in ir own ways.  As y say this, a member drops globe, which immediately rises up in absence of gravitational pull. Following which, all team members mselves begin to float as video concludes.

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Since shared, unique recreation of famous tradition has won hearts of people. It has t been viewed over 75 thousand times but also racked up a bandwagon of comments from zealous netizens. "Because gravity draws objects with mass toward objects with greater mass. And Happy New Year to all of you, too!," wrote a user. 

"I would love to see you show us a video of what happens to free-floating items in ISS when you make station-keeping burns. Assuming you have measured forces, what is range of “Gs” experienced? Is it even .01 G?," wrote ar user. 

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