The International Space Station circles the planet so fast that the crew watch the sun rise and set sixteen times in a single day, a new dawn roughly every ninety minutes - Space Daily
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The International Space Station circles the planet so fast that the crew watch the sun rise and set sixteen times in a single day, a new dawn roughly every ninety minutes - Space Daily

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The International Space Station travels fast enough that its crew pass through sixteen sunrises and sixteen sunsets in the course of a single day. At an altitude of roughly 400 kilometres it moves at about 28,000 kilometres an hour, which works out to one ful…