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An American astronaut and Russian cosmonaut will leave Earth this week and move into the International Space Station for an entire year, all in the name of science.
Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko begin their marathon mission with a Soyuz rocket launch from Kazakhstan early Saturday Friday in the U.S. They should arrive at the orbiting outpost six hours later.
It will be NASA's first stab at a one-year spaceflight, a predecessor for Mars expeditions that would last two to three times as long. The Russians are old hands at this, but it's been nearly two decades since a cosmonaut has spent close to a year in orbit.
Five things to know about the duo's extraordinary endeavor:
THE CREW
Both Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko have lived on the space station before. No-nonsense former military men, they were selected as an astronaut and cosmonaut in the 1990s. Kelly, 51, is a retired Navy captain and former space shuttle commander. Kornienko, 54, is a former paratrooper. The pair will blast off with Russian Gennady Padalka, a veteran spaceman who will spend six months at the orbiting lab.
THE MISSION
Kelly and Kornienko will remain on board until next March. During that time, they will undergo extensive medical experiments, and prepare the station for the anticipated 2017 arrival of new U.S. commercial crew capsules. That means a series of spacewalks for Kelly. They also will oversee the comings and goings of numerous cargo ships, as well as other Russian-launched crews. Soprano superstar Sarah Brightman will stop by as a space tourist in September.
THE SCIENCE
Doctors are eager to learn what happens to Kelly and Kornienko once they surpass the usual six-month stay for space station residents. Bones and muscles weaken in weightlessness, as does the immune system. Body fluids also shift into the head when gravity is absent, and that puts pressure on the brain and the eyes, impairing vision for some astronauts in space. Might these afflictions peter out after six months, hold steady or ramp up? That's what researchers want to find out so they can protect Mars-bound crews in the decades ahead.
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TIME Lightbox Behind the Photos TIME Announces A Year in Space Multimedia Documentary Series For the next year, TIME takes you on an out-of-this-world ride to the ISS
On Friday, astronaut Scott Kelly will embark on a one-year mission aboard the International Space Station. To coincide with the event, TIME launches today the trailer of A Year in Space, a multi-part documentary series produced by TIMEs Red Border Films and directed by Shaul Schwarz and Marco Grob. Presented, from May 2015, across all TIME platformsboth print and digital A Year in Space will offer exclusive access into the lives of Scott and Mark Kelly, NASAs twin astronautsfrom training sessions at the Neutral Buoyancy Lab in Houston, Texas, all the way to the International Space Station (ISS), 250 miles in orbit. Visit time.com/space.
Your mind and your body have very different views on space. Your mind thinks it would be a fine and fun and thrilling place to be. Your body wants no part of it. The human organism was built for a one-g environmentand would just as soon stay there. Put it in zero-g for too long and everything comes unsprung: the heart goes slack, the bones get brittle, blood pressure goes awry, muscles wither, the eyes weaken.
Scott Kelly is about to face all that down. On March 27, the veteran of three previous space flights will take off for the International Space Station (ISS) and, along with cosmonaut Misha Kornienko, remain aloft for a full year. Meantime, Scotts twin brother Mark, a veteran of four space flights, will remain on the ground. The two men with their matching backgrounds, similar health and identical genomes, will serve as the perfect controlled experiment to learn more about how the human body handles weightlessnessand what can be done to minimize the damage during long-term trips to Mars and elsewhere.
The Kelly mission is part of what is shaping up to be the most significant year in space in a long time. With the Juno probe on the way to Jupiter, the Dawn probes recent arrival at the dwarf planet Ceres, the New Horizons probe set for a first-ever rendezvous with Pluto in July, the Curiosity rover completing its third year on Mars and no fewer than three American manned spacecraftstwo being built by the private sector and one by NASAmoving closer to flight, the U.S. is at last reclaiming its fully preeminent position in space.
But its the story of Scott and Mark that will be the truly moving, truly human taleand TIME will be covering it from all angles. Our A Year in Space project kicked off with our cover story on the Kellys in our Dec. 29, 2014 issue. It will continue on all of our platformsweb, tablet, mobile, magazineuntil after Scotts return in the spring of 2016.
As we did during the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo days, TIME will be going into the lives and living rooms of American astronauts and their families. Our online coverage has begun already, with an exclusive trip into the 40-ft. depths of NASAs Neutral Buoyancy Labessentially a 6.2 million gal. (23.5 million liter) swimming poolwhere fully space-suited astronauts train on a mock-up of the ISS.
We will continue with at least nine hours of interviews with Scott, his family, the girlfriend hes leaving behind and the doctors who will be looking after him while hes in orbit, and with 80 minutes of conversations with him aboard the ISS. TIME.com will feature regular video and story updates throughout the year and a feature-length, Red Border Films documentary at the end of the year.
The brothers have been there beforein wonderful and terrible ways. They have both known the thrill of being in space and the slight ache of wanting to be the one whos flying when its the other brothers turn. Theyve known the wonderful sense of connectedness that comes from being in space and being able to call home and discuss the experience with a person uniquelyalmost surreallyable to understand it all. And theyve known the pain of not having that brother close when neededas when Marks wife, former Congresswoman Gabriel Gifford, was nearly assassinated when Scott was in space. The one person who could have helped me most was off the planet, Mark has said.
This year, Scott and Mark will, in a sense, be flying the same mission for the first time. Mark, having retired from NASA, may remain at home in Arizona, but the brothers will be working together to advance the far larger mission of helping the human speciesmoored to a single world in a universe full of themslowly stretch its reach into the cosmos.
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MOSCOW - Hundreds of kilometres below on Earth, their governments are locked in a standoff over Ukraine -- but up in space, Russian cosmonauts and American astronauts are still working together side by side.
The International Space Station (ISS) is one of the rare areas of US-Russian co-operation that has not been hit by the Ukraine crisis and in the latest show of commitment, the next joint mission is set to blast off from Kazakhstan on Friday.
The crew will include two space veterans -- American Scott Kelly and Russian Mikhail Kornienko -- who are down to become the first people to spend a whole year straight on the cosmic outpost, rather than the usual six months.
"We do our work that we love and we respect each other," Russian cosmonaut Alexander Samokutyaev said of life aboard the ISS after returning to Earth this month.
"Whatever the politicians want to get up to, that is their business," he told journalists at a press conference just after landing.
First launched as an international project back in 1998, the station was heralded as a symbol of the co-operation that emerged from the Cold War rivalry of the space race between the Soviet Union and United states.
And while the research outpost may technically be divided into Russian and American sections the truth, analysts say, is that neither country can run it on their own.
"The US and Russia need each other," American expert John Logsdon, a member of NASA's Advisory Council, told AFP.
'Like a marriage'
"It is like a marriage where divorce is almost impossible."
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The International Space Station now plays host to an experiment that could help scientists unlock the mysteries of Alzheimer's disease.
The devastating disease a type of dementia that affects memory currently plagues more than 5 million people in the United States alone. It's a number so great that a new diagnosis is made every 67 seconds. But before scientists can find a cure, they need to better understand the origins of the disease in detail.
Alzheimer's likely advances when certain proteins assemble themselves into long linear fibers that ultimately strangle nerve cells in the brain. In laboratories, however, these fibers collapse under their own weight before they can grow large enough to study. That's where the space station's unique position as a weight-free laboratory comes into play. [Watch a video about the Alzheimer's experiment]
A four-inch cube containing an autonomous space station experiment better known as SABOL, or Self-Assembly in Biology and the Origin of Life basted off to the orbiting outpost on SpaceX's cargo launch to the station in January.
"Everybody wants a cure, but without knowing the actual cause of the disease, you're basically shooting in the dark," Dan Woodard, a project consultant from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, said in a statement. "We don't understand the true mechanism of the disease. If we're lucky, then we'll find out whether proteins will aggregate in space. Only in weightlessness can you produce an environment free of convection so you can see whether they form on their own. We expect to learn incrementally from this."
In the body, these protein fibers take decades to form. But in theweightless conditions on the International Space Station, they'll likely form much quicker, scientists think. And without gravity to pull them to the bottom of the container, they're expected to grow in a way that shows how they wrap around each other to form those long fibers that wreak havoc on the brain.
Although SABOL won't directly lead to a cure, it could help researchers learn more about how to slow down the rate at which the harmful fibers grow.
"We've got to understand why some people get these conditions and others don't," Woodard said. "There have to be chemicals or processes that hinder or encourage the growth of protein fibers. It may be something as simple as temperature or salt concentration of the fluid in the brain."
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Hamid Ansari talks on the phone with his wife, Anousheh Ansari, during her first moments onboard the International Space Station, on September 20, 2006 in Korolev Russia. Ansari and the Expedition 14 crew docked to the International Space Station September 20, 2006. A Soyuz TMA-9 spacecraft lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan September 18, 2006. Photo by Bill Ingalls/NASA/Getty Images
Russia officials say they will resume space tourism in 2018 after years of sending into space only professional cosmonauts and astronauts.
Russia had sent seven paying guests to the International Space Station since 2001 before curtailing the program in 2009. Sending a tourist has been all but impossible since 2011 when the United States shut down its Space Shuttle program and had to rely on Russian Soyuz rockets in order to get into orbit.
Russia, however, has made an exception for British soprano Sarah Brightman who is due to blast off on Sept. 1.
American enterprises aimed at space tourism were stymied last fall after a Virgin Galactic craft crashed during a test flight over the Mojave desert. The SpaceShipTwo crash, on Oct. 31, 2014, killed one pilot and left another injured. It also slowed Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson's plans of getting paying customers to the edges of space, for $250,000 a pop.
Virgin Galactic CEO said soon after the incident that the company could resume test flights this summer.
Russia's RKK Energia, a state-controlled rocket manufacturer, said in a quarterly report released on Tuesday that it plans to make up for an expected drop in demand for manned flights by resuming space tourism in 2018.
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American astronaut Scott Kelly, left, and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko, play billiards at the Cosmonaut hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Photograph: Bill Ingalls/AP
Their respective countries may be going through one of the worst periods of hostility since the end of the cold war, but this week an American astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut will fly up to the International Space Station to spend a year on board together.
Despite the enmities of the cold war and the frigid relations of their governments today, scientists and astronauts from Nasa and its Russian equivalent, Roscosmos, have a fruitful and friendly history of recent cooperation. As the US government has cut space program funding, for instance, Nasa has turned to its Russian counterpart to assist with mission logistics such as sharing a launch pad.
The mission beginning this week for American Scott Kelly, 51, and his Russian counterpart Mikhail Kornienko, 54, will also feature experiments necessary to plan for a manned mission to Mars and an opportunity to compare Kellys health in space with that of his twin brother, Mark, back on earth.
Mark was also an astronaut, and is the husband of former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot and seriously injured in 2011.
Kelly and Kornienko will fly from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, one of the oldest launch facilities on Earth, on Friday (Saturday on the steppes).
Kelly will be the first American to spend a continuous year in space; Russian Valery Polyakov spent more than a year on the Mir space station in the 1990s.
During their year-long mission, 12 other astronauts will join them for shorter stints including Gennady Padalka, a Russian who has spent more than 700 non-consecutive days in space. Padalka will spend six months on the space station this time, after which he will have spent more days in space than any other human being.
More than 40 years after Americans landed on the moon, many in the US consider spaceflight relatively routine, but its dangers remain as destructive to human beings as ever, and sometimes as mysterious: eyeballs distended by brain fluid floating weightless around the skull, pathogens made more virulent by the variables of space, bone loss, muscle atrophy, radiation.
During their year on the ISS, Kelly and Kornienko will perform daily cognitive, visual, physical, microbial and metabolic tests, and will also keep journals that will help their respective space agencies study the psychological toll of a year in orbit.
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In this photo provided by NASA, astronaut Scott Kelly sits inside a Soyuz simulator at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC), Wednesday, March 4, 2015 in Star City, Russia. On Saturday, March 28, 2015, Kelly and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko will travel to the International Space Station to begin a year-long mission living in orbit. (AP Photo/NASA, Bill Ingalls)(The Associated Press)
In this Sept. 5, 2014 photo provided by NASA, cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko, left, of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), and astronaut Scott Kelly stand together for a picture at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia. In late March 2015, Kelly and Kornienko are scheduled to travel to the International Space Station to begin a year-long mission living in orbit. (AP Photo/NASA, Stephanie Stoll)(The Associated Press)
In this Thursday, March 19, 2015 photo provided by NASA, astronaut Scott Kelly, left, plays pool with Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko, of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. On Saturday, March 28, 2015, Kelly and Kornienko will travel to the International Space Station to begin a year-long mission living in orbit. (AP Photo/NASA, Bill Ingalls)(The Associated Press)
This August 2010 photo provided by the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center shows NASA astronaut Scott Kelly in a Russian Sokol launch and entry suit in Star City, Russia. On Saturday, March 28, 2015, Kelly and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko will travel to the International Space Station to begin a year-long mission living in orbit. (AP Photo/GCTC via NASA)(The Associated Press)
This Feb. 6, 2015 photo provided by the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) shows cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko in Star City, Russia. On Saturday, March 28, 2015, Kornienko and astronaut Scott Kelly will travel to the International Space Station to begin a year-long mission living in orbit. (AP Photo/Roscosmos and GCTC)(The Associated Press)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. An American astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut are moving into the International Space Station this week and staying for an entire year.
After more than two years of training, Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko are eager to get going. It will be the longest space mission ever for NASA, and the longest in almost two decades for the Russian Space Agency, which holds the record at 14 months.
Their Soyuz rocket is scheduled to blast off from Kazakhstan on Friday afternoon in the U.S. (early Saturday morning in Kazakhstan.)
The world's space agencies want to know how the body adapts to an entire year of weightlessness before committing to even longer Mars expeditions. The typical stint at the space station is six months.
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What's one thing NASA astronaut Scott Kelly can't do without when he moves into space this week for a year? A belt.
Kelly went beltless during his five-month mission at the International Space Station a few years back, and he hated how his shirttails kept floating out of his pants. So this time, the 51-year-old retired Navy captain packed "a military, tactical-style thing" that can hold a tool pouch. He calls it a "superhero utility belt."
Meanwhile, Kelly's 54-year-old partner on the yearlong stay at the space station Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko can't do without his vitamins. When their Soyuz rocket blasts off from Kazakhstan on Saturday (Friday afternoon in the U.S.), three bottles of over-age-50 vitamins will be on board.
After more than two years of training, Kelly and Kornienko are eager to get going. It will be the longest space mission ever for NASA, and the longest in almost two decades for the Russian Space Agency, which holds the record at 14 months. Medicine and technology have made huge leaps since then, and the world's space agencies need to know how the body adapts to an entire year of weightlessness before committing to even longer Mars expeditions.
More yearlong missions are planned, with an ultimate goal of 12 test subjects. The typical station stint is six months. "We know a lot about six months. But we know almost nothing about what happens between six and 12 months in space," said NASA's space station program scientist, Julie Robinson. Among the more common space afflictions: weakened bones and muscles, and impaired vision and immune system.
Then there is the psychological toll. Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, a frequent flier who will accompany Kelly and Kornienko into orbit, predicts it will be the psychological not physical effects that will be toughest on the one-year crew.
Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Gennady Padalka team up with NASA astronaut Scott Kelly for a photo op in front of their Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft during a final preflight check on Monday at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Kelly and Kornienko will spend a year on the International Space Station, while Padalka is due to set a record for cumulative time in space (900 days) during his stint on the station.
NASA actually got a 2-for-1 deal with Kelly. He is teaming up with brother Mark for a battery of medical tests so researchers can compare the physique and physiology of the space twin with his genetic double on the ground. Raised by police-officer parents, they've lived parallel lives as Navy fighter and test pilots and space shuttle commanders.
Mark Kelly, a four-time space flier, will be at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for his brother's launch; wife Giffords will watch from Houston with Johnson Space Center friends. He's already endured numerous blood draws and ultrasounds in the name of space science.
As for what Scott will endure, "Imagine if you went to work where your office was and then you had to stay in that place for a year and not go outside, right? Kind of a challenge," Mark said in an AP interview.
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What's one thing astronaut Scott Kelly can't do without when he moves into space this week for a year? A belt.
Kelly went beltless during his five-month mission at the International Space Station a few years back, and he hated how his shirttails kept floating out of his pants. So this time, the 51-year-old retired Navy captain packed "a military, tactical-style thing" that can hold a tool pouch.
Actually, scratch pouch. He prefers "superhero utility belt."
Kelly's partner on the yearlong stay at the space station Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko can't do without his vitamins. When their Soyuz rocket blasts off from Kazakhstan on Saturday (Friday afternoon in the U.S.), three bottles of over-age-50 vitamins will be on board.
After more than two years of training, Kelly and Kornienko are eager to get going. It will be the longest space mission ever for NASA, and the longest in almost two decades for the Russian Space Agency, which holds the record at 14 months.
Medicine and technology have made huge leaps since then, and the world's space agencies need to know how the body adapts to an entire year of weightlessness before committing to even longer Mars expeditions. More yearlong missions are planned, with an ultimate goal of 12 test subjects. The typical station stint is six months.
"We know a lot about six months. But we know almost nothing about what happens between six and 12 months in space," said NASA's space station program scientist, Julie Robinson.
Among the more common space afflictions: weakened bones and muscles, and impaired vision and immune system. Then there is the psychological toll.
Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, a frequent flier who will accompany Kelly and Kornienko into orbit, predicts it will be the psychological not physical effects that will be toughest on the one-year crew.
"Being far away from Earth, being sort of crammed, having few people to interact with," Padalka said. He'll break the record for most time spent in space during his six-month stay, closing in on a grand total of 900 days by the time he returns to Earth in September.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. What's one thing astronaut Scott Kelly can't do without when he moves into space this week for a year? A belt.
Kelly went beltless during his five-month mission at the International Space Station a few years back, and he hated how his shirttails kept floating out of his pants. So this time, the 51-year-old retired Navy captain packed "a military, tactical-style thing" that can hold a tool pouch.
Actually, scratch "pouch." He prefers "superhero utility belt."
Kelly's partner on the yearlong stay at the space station Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko can't do without his vitamins. When their Soyuz rocket blasts off from Kazakhstan on Saturday (Friday afternoon in the U.S.), three bottles of over-age-50 vitamins will be on board.
After more than two years of training, Kelly and Kornienko are eager to get going. It will be the longest space mission ever for NASA, and the longest in almost two decades for the Russian Space Agency, which holds the record at 14 months.
Medicine and technology have made huge leaps since then, and the world's space agencies need to know how the body adapts to an entire year of weightlessness before committing to even longer Mars expeditions. More yearlong missions are planned, with an ultimate goal of 12 test subjects. The typical station stint is six months.
"We know a lot about six months. But we know almost nothing about what happens between six and 12 months in space," said NASA's space station program scientist, Julie Robinson.
Among the more common space afflictions: weakened bones and muscles, and impaired vision and immune system. Then there is the psychological toll.
Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, a frequent flier who will accompany Kelly and Kornienko into orbit, predicts it will be the psychological not physical effects that will be toughest on the one-year crew.
"Being far away from Earth, being sort of crammed, having few people to interact with," Padalka said. He'll break the record for most time spent in space during his six-month stay, closing in on a grand total of 900 days by the time he returns to Earth in September.
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