The crowd gathered at New York's Times Square on New Year's Eve will get a surprise. They will be wished Happy New Year from NASA astronauts.
Astronaut Mike Massimino will introduce a video message, which will be having greeting from expedition 36 flight engineer Karen Nyberg, who has returned from the space station in November. The video greeting will also have messages from three other astronauts NASA's Rick Mastracchio and Mike Hopkins and Koichi Wakata from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.
Currently, they all are on board at the space station. It has been found that the New Year's countdown will start at 6pm and will continue till 12.15 am as per E. S. T. The countdown will be shown at the Toshiba Vision screen, which is present on the top of One Times Square.
The dual LED screens at the Times Square will allow revelers to see the special greetings from space. Astronaut Mike Massimino will come to the New Year's Eve Countdown event to take place on Tuesday. He is expected to reach at the event at 9:47 p. m.
The Toshiba screen has showcased a number of NASA events like landing of Curiosity rover and the launches of two spacecrafts.
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