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ONE YEAR MISSION TO THE ISS
In March 2015, one astronaut and one cosmonaut will launch from Kazakhstan to spend one year living and working in space aboard the International Space Station.
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian Federal Space Agency
cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko, will launch atop a Soyuz rocket from the
Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan along with fellow cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, scheduled for March 2015. Kelly and Kornienko will live
aboard the orbiting complex for one year, before returning to Earth in
2016.
Kornienko and Kelly will spend one year living on
the International Space Station in 2015
The one year mission will allow scientists to see how the human body will
adapt to the microgravity living and working conditions found aboard the
ISS, as well as examining the psychological effects of living off the planet
for one year. The scientific community will also be carefully watching how
Kelly and Kornienko re-adapt to life back on Earth after spending a year
in low-Earth orbit. Changes in vision are just one of the many side effects
that have been observed in some astronauts returning from long-duration
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