Are you ready to catch big games? On Sunday (9 February), around the United States and the world, Americans and American football fans will tune to watch the top two teams in the National Football League (NFL). The season games, and even space -living astronauts will have a chance to see action live.
On Sunday evening, the American Football Conference (AFC) Champion, Head of Canasus City, will face the National Football Conference (NFC) Champion at the Super Bowl Lix, against Philadelphia Eagles. The kickoff for Big Matchup is scheduled for ET (2330 GMT) at 6:30 pm, with coverage provided by Fox Broadcasting Company.
Many Americans will gather in watch parties and sports bars to please their favorite team, contribute to the consumption of an estimated 1.4 billion chicken wings, and will normally exercise for the occasion. And watch parties should not be limited to the earth.
An official at the Johnson Space Center told Space.com that NASA would be provided with a live uplink of the Super Bowl to the International Space Station (ISS), which astronauts should “choose to live to see it.” For them, it will be additional late night.
An astronaut riding in the ISS is not in the United States at any time in the United States. In “International Space Station” “International” means that astronauts of many nationalities are generally working together at the space station, and the opposite sides of the planet require to coordinate with the mission control teams.
Another reason lies in the fact that the space station experiences a new sunrise every 45 minutes because it revolves around the planet at 17,500 mph (28,000 km per hour), so you sleep sleeping bicycles that sleep What will be the lights of the day through the windows of the station. chaos.
For example, ISS is operated on the coordinated universal time, UTC, also known as Greenwich Meen Time (GMT). It puts NASA astronauts riding at the station 5-6 hours before the mission control in Houston, Texas (depending on the time of day saving). So, on any NASA’s astronaut Kohrurt Orbit to see the game, the kickoff is not actually until 11:30 pm
There are currently four NASA astronauts aboard the ISS. The campaign 72 commander Sun. Williams and Flight Engineer Buch Wilmore launched the station in the Starlineer spacecraft of Boeing last June. His 10-day mission changed about 10 months after NASA, when NASA decided to bring Starlineer back to Earth. He joined Astronauts Don Petit a few months later, who launched a Russian Soyuz spacecraft at the station, and Nick Hag, who launched the SpaceX Crew -9 dragon, which Hugs with Williams and Wilmore and their cromate alexandra Gorbunov Used to work with Russia’s Space Agency of Roscosmos.
NASA spokesperson told Space.com, so far, there is no on-arbit message or material plan for astronauts regarding the super bowl Lix, but any crew is free to see NASA’s uplink. As in which teams could be vested for astronauts, NASA officials said they “were unable to put speculation,” and no astronauts responded to the requests for the comments.
Thinking as an astronaut, however, in relation to some American symbols, with the dedication of service to my country and a affinity for excessive height, I think I have to root for NASA’s best team that he has to root Gave wings in all ways to space. , And, keeping this in mind, I suspect they will all chant:
“Fly, eagles, fly!”
