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Disabled pilots of aerobatic WeFly! Team in the Space with @AstroSamantha – Video

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Esa astronaut and captain pilot of Italian Air Force, Samantha Cristoforetti, during Asi mission "Futura", shown in the International Space Station the WeFly! Team flag. WeFly! Team is the...

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Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft set for Kazakhstan blast off – no comment – Video

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Final preparations have begun in Kazakhstan ahead of the launch of a spacecraft on Friday (March 27). Soyuz TMA-16M will take NASA #39;s Scott Kelly and Russia #39;s Mikhail Kornienko to the International.

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Watch the One-Year Space Station Mission Launch

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The mission will help NASA understand how the body could handle a trip to Mars

Russia's Soyuz rocket stands poised to launch NASA's Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko to space for a one-year stay on the International Space Station. Credit:NASA/Victor Zelentsov

A three-person crew will blast off to the International Space Station today (March 27), and two of them won't be coming back to Earth for a full year. You can watch live online as the yearlong mission begins.

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Gennady Padalka will fly to the station atop a Russian Soyuz spacecraft from Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Central Asia. Kelly and Kornienko will participate in the yearlong mission aboard the orbiting outpost, while Padalka spends six months on the station before flying home. Watch the one-year space crew launch live on Space.com starting at 2:30 p.m. EDT (1830 GMT) via NASA TV. The three crewmembers are scheduled to blast off at 3:42 p.m. EDT (in the wee hours of Saturday morning, Baikonur time).

Kornienko and Kelly's one-year mission will help scientists on the ground gather much-needed data about how the human body behaves during a long-term spaceflight. It will take much more than a year for astronauts to get to Mars, a major NASA goal going forward, so learning more about how the body reacts to a long spaceflight is necessary before people can fly to the Red Planet safely. [One-Year Space Station Mission: Full Coverage]

"This knowledge is critical as NASA looks toward human journeys deeper into the solar system, including to and from Mars, which could last 500 days or longer," NASA officials said in a statement. "It also carries potential benefits for humans here on Earth, from helping patients recover from long periods of bed rest to improving monitoring for people whose bodies are unable to fight infections."

Scientists know a lot about how bodies change after six months in microgravity (the usual amount of time a crewmember spends on the International Space Station), but this yearlong mission could help researchers understand other ways astronauts change after more time in orbit. For example, officials will monitor Kelly and Kornienko's mental health, eyes, muscle and bone mass to determine what kind of ill effects the long-duration stay in space might have on them.

NASA's Scott Kelly an astronaut scheduled to spend one year on the International Space Station waits to check out the Russian Soyuz spacecraft that will take him to the orbiting outpost on March 27, 2015.Credit:NASA/Bill Ingalls

Kelly's yearlong mission will mark the first time an American has spent a continuous year in orbit. Some Soviet-era cosmonauts spent a year (or more) in space during the 1980s and 1990s on the space station Mir, but this mission will be the first time the United States and Russia have collaborated for a yearlong spaceflight.

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NASA has high hopes for one-year station flight

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Engineers fueled a workhorse Soyuz booster for launch Friday to ferry NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko to the International Space Station for a marathon 342-day mission, the longest flight ever attempted by an American.

Kelly, Kornienko and Soyuz TMA-16M commander Gennady Padalka were scheduled for launch at 3:42:57 p.m. EDT (GMT-4; 1:43 a.m. Saturday local time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The launching was timed to roughly coincide with the moment Earth's rotation carried the pad into the plane of the station's orbit.

With Padalka strapped into the Soyuz command module's center seat, flanked on the left by flight engineer Kornienko and on the right by Kelly, the spacecraft was expected to slip into its preliminary orbit eight minutes and 45 seconds after launch.

Following a fast-track four-orbit trajectory, Padalka, one of Russia's most experienced cosmonauts, plans to monitor an autonomous rendezvous and docking at the station's upper Poisk module around 9:36 p.m. Standing by to welcome them aboard will be Expedition 43 commander Terry Virts, cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov and European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti.

Padalka will return to Earth in September, becoming the world's most experienced spaceman in the process with 878 days in space over five missions. Kelly and Kornienko, both space station veterans, will remain aloft until March 3, 2016, logging 342 days in space.

Four Russian cosmonauts -- Valery Polyakov, Sergei Avdeyev, Vladimir Titov and Musa Manarov -- participated in flights aboard the Russian Mir space station lasting between 366 to 438 days, but the last such flight ended in the 1990s. Kelly and Kornienko will be the first ISS crew members to spend nearly a year in space and Kelly will set a new endurance record for American astronauts.

The Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft on the pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

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"This is not Russia's first venture having people stay in space for a year or longer," Kelly said Thursday. "But ... this is the first time we're doing it as an international partnership, which is what I think is one of the greatest success stories of the International Space Station.

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'Space nets' trap cosmic junk

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Technology thousands of years old has been overhauled to capture threats to space hardware.

Space junk poses a serious threat, particularly to humans in space whether in the International Space Station, space shuttles, or other spacecraft.

The debris also poses a threat to satellites, which fulfill a critical role for militaries, governments, and businesses. Satellites, for example, help provide television, weather data, phone services and GPS navigation to the public.

The only way to protect current and future missions, as well as the satellites essential to everyday life, is to remove threats lurking in space.

The solution? Fishing. Recent tests for space age space nets by the European Space Agency have proved very successful.

While fishing nets have been in use for several thousand years, space nets take this this ancient piece of technology to a whole new level.

The hope is that nets could be deployed to capture and remove space threats.

The threat

Earth is entirely surrounded by a halo of junk in space. Space debris can be natural, like meteroids, or can be manmade.

There are more than half a million pieces of debris and, according to NASA calculations, at least 17, 000 trackable objects larger than a coffee cup.

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Robot astronaut to robot girlfriend: Kibo project points to future of artificial companions – Video

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Robot astronaut to robot girlfriend: Kibo project points to future of artificial companions
The first ever robot astronaut has finished an 18-month stint on board the International Space Station (ISS) and has now returned to Earth for a new mission: to keep people company. The Kibo...

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Starmade StarSquadron E7 – Hanging out at Drakkart’s Station Part 2 – Video

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New Inflatable Habitat is Ready for Its First Space Station Trip – Video

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New Inflatable Habitat is Ready for Its First Space Station Trip
A new, inflatable addition to the International Space Station is ready for its close-up. NASA officials viewed Bigelow Aerospace #39;s Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) at the company #39;s...

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Locutus Assimilates – Elite Dangerous – A Pilgrimage for Pratchett – Video

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Locutus Assimilates - Elite Dangerous - A Pilgrimage for Pratchett
I set off on a loooong voyage across the galaxy to pay a visit to the newly added #39;Pratchett #39;s Disc #39; space station in Elite Dangerous to pay tribute to my favourite author of all time, who...

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