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Astronauts celebrate New Year’s Eve with zero-gravity ball ‘drop’

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3 … 2 … 1 … zero gravity!
As citizens of Earth marked a muted and socially distant New Year’s Eve, astronauts in space rang …

3 … 2 … 1 … zero gravity! As citizens of Earth marked a muted and socially distant New Year’s Eve, astronauts in space rang in 2021 with a gravity-free celebration. In a video released by NASA, five of the six astronauts living aboard the International Space Station recreated the Times Square ball drop with a beachball of the globe that dropped up instead of being pulled down by the force of gravity. “We wanted to take a moment to wish all of you a very happy New Year,” NASA astronaut Kate Rubins said in the New Year’s Eve video.

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