Astronaut Scott Kelly’s year in space to help prepare for manned Mars mission

Posted on 30 Mar 2015 by Tim Brown
Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (top) and NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, wave farewell as they board the Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft ahead of launch.

On Friday, two astronauts, one from Russia and the other the US, commenced a full year in space, living and working aboard the International Space Station.

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 3:42 pm EDT and the crew entered the Space Station safely at around 11.32pm. The object of the gruelling year in space is to help scientists better understand how the human body reacts and adapts to…

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