NASA astronaut Sunita Williams stuck in space celebrate new year 16 times sunrises and sunsets at international space station

Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams is stuck in the International Space Station these days. Sunita celebrated her New Year at the International Space Station (ISS) with her fellow crew members. But not once but 16 times! Yes, Sunita Williams saw the sun rise and set 16 times on New Year’s Day while in space. Sunita Williams and the crew members living with her got this unique opportunity to welcome the New Year.

This opportunity was no less than a dream for NASA astronauts. While crores of people on Earth welcomed the New Year only once, Sunita Williams in the ISS did it 16 times. A post from the space station on Many sunset photos have been taken from the classroom outpost here over the years.

Sunita Williams is the commander of the Expedition 72 mission, along with her space station companions Alexey Ovchinin, Butch Wilmore, Evan Wagner, Don Pettit, Alexander Gorbunov and Nick Hague. Actually, the reason for seeing 16 sunrises is related to the ISS’s rotation in the Earth’s orbit.

The International Space Station completes approximately 15.5 revolutions around the Earth in a day. It revolves around the Earth at an average speed of 28 thousand kilometers per hour. It is present 400 kilometers above the earth’s surface. The space station takes 90 minutes to revolve around the Earth. Sunita Williams left for this mission in June on the Boeing Starliner spacecraft. He had to return after 8 days. But due to technical glitches this mission kept getting longer. Now Sunita Williams will return to Earth in March 2025.