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Astronaut Clayton Anderson Knows How to Make an Entrance
A disoriented Clayton Anderson explains how he ended up "upside down" in the International Space Station, leading to a moment captured here on video!

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Astronaut Clayton Anderson Knows How to Make an Entrance - Video

The International Space Station circles the Earth about every 90 minutes, and in that time they move in and out of range of a number of terrestrial radio stations. If youre ever curious whats broadcasting in the part of the world the ISS is moving over, Radio ISS will play it for you.

The site itself is pretty simple. Once you visit, youll be treated to a view of the ISS live camera at Ustream, while the site shows you the position of the space station on a map, and streams terrestrial radio stations from the vicinity at the bottom of the page. If theres more than one available, you can choose among them, and you can watch as the ISS moves around the planet and the radio stations change based on its position.

Of course, this isnt quite what the ISS hears, since thats a bit more complicated, but it is a fun little experiment to see what they may be hearing if they were to tune in to terrestrial radio somehow. Its also worth noting that not every station in an area will stream for example, when I tuned in and the ISS was just west of Mexico (shown above) the closest station streaming on the internet was an AM station from Texas. Hit the link below to give it a try and see what you can hear.

Radio ISS: Listening to Earth from Space [via Kottke]

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Radio ISS Streams Global Radio The International Space Station Can Hear

The crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS) will have an opportunity to raise their drinks 16 times as they orbit the globe on New Year's Eve, NASA said.

Zooming around the Earth at 17,500 miles per hour, the ISS will pass 16 times over places on the planet where it is midnight, although the year 2015 starts officially for the station at midnight by Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) in London.

Expedition 42's Commander Barry Wilmore and NASA's Terry Virts, Russia's Elena Serova, Alexander Samoukutyaev and Anton Shkaplerov, and European Space Agency's Samantha Cristoforetti said they planned to celebrate with fruit juice toasts, according to the US space agency.

The crew is scheduled to be in its sleep shift on New Year's Day, which is their day off, but they may decide to stay up late for the occasion, NASA suggested.

According to the agency, the space travelers spent the last day of 2014 working on different experiments and preparing for the arrival of the next cargo ship, which is due to arrive on January 8.

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ISS Crew to Raise Toasts for New Year's Eve 16 Times