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Fascinating - What it #39;s like to Float Around in Space
Expedition 33 Commander Suni Williams continues the tour of the International Space Station with a look at the station #39;s observation deck, the cupola, as well as the Advanced Resistive Exercise Device in the Tranquility node, before heading into the Leonardo Permanent Multi-Purpose Module.From:NASAexploreViews:0 0ratingsTime:06:08More inScience Technology

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An American and a Russian astronaut will spend a rare year-long stay on board the International Space Station, according to NASA and Roscosmos, the Russian Federal Space Agency.

Scott Kelly and Mikhael Komienko will head off into space in the spring of 2015, according to Monday's announcement.

Their goal will be to gather more data about how weightlessness affects humans over long periods in space.

"We have chosen the most responsible, skilled and enthusiastic crew members to expand space exploration, and we have full confidence in them," said the head of Roscosmos, Vladimir Popovkin.

Ultimately, by becoming guinea pigs, the pair will help reduce the health risks for future long-term missions to the moon and also, perhaps, to Mars.

Data on the effects of gravity on muscle mass, strength, vision and bone density will be collected.

Until now, crews have only spent up to six months at the space station. But there have been previous studies on the physiological and physiological effects of long-term human spaceflight.

Russian cosmonaut Valery Polyakov spent nearly 438 consecutive days from January 1994 to March 1995 in space aboard the Mir Space Station. Also, in 2011, six volunteers from Europe, Russia and China spent 520 days confined in a capsule at a research institute in Moscow.

Kelly, 48, is a U.S. Navy captain who first served as a pilot on a space shuttle mission in1999 and was a commander in 2007.

In 2010, he was the flight engineer on the International Space Station Expedition 25 and served as commander of Expedition 26 in 2011. He has logged more than 180 days in space.

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Astronauts chosen for rare year-long stint on space station

A veteran NASA space commander and Russian cosmonaut have signed on for the ultimate space voyage: a yearlong trip on the International Space Station.

American astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko will launch on the one-year space station flight in spring 2015 and return to Earth in spring 2016, NASA officials announced Monday. They will begin their mission training in early 2013.

The mission will help NASA understand how the human body adapts to extremely long space missions, such as voyages around the moon, to an asteroid and ultimately to Mars, NASA officials said.

"Congratulations to Scott and Mikhail on their selection for this important mission," William Gerstenmaier, NASA's associate administrator for Human Exploration and Operations in Washington, said in a statement. "Their skills and previous experience aboard the space station align with the mission's requirements. The one-year increment will expand the bounds of how we live and work in space and will increase our knowledge regarding the effects of microgravity on humans as we prepare for future missions beyond low-Earth orbit." [ Most Extreme Human Spaceflight Records ]

NASA is developing spacecraft and mission plans to send astronauts to visit a near-Earth asteroid by 2025, a goal set by President Barack Obama. The space agency is also reportedly studying potential manned missions back to the moon.

Kelly, 48, is a U.S. Navy captain who has flown on two space shuttle missions and one long-duration expedition on the International Space Station. He commanded the space station's Expedition 26 mission in 2010 during his third spaceflight.

Kelly hails from West Orange, N.J., and joined NASA's astronaut corps in 1996. His identical twin brother, Mark Kelly, also served as a Navy captain and NASA astronaut before retiring from the military and spaceflight in 2011.

Kornienko, 52, is also a veteran spaceflyer. The native of Syzran in Russia's Kuibyshev region is a former paratrooper officer who joined Russia's cosmonaut corps in 1998. Kornienko spent more than 176 days in space as a flight engineer on the station's Expedition 23 and 24 crews.

NASA and Russia announced plans for the one-year space station voyage earlier this year. Rumors of the flight were circling before the announcement, with the Russian news agency Interfax suggesting that veteran NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson a veteran station commander as a potential choice for the American crew member. Whitson stepped down from her position as NASA's chief astronaut earlier this year to rejoin the agency's active spaceflying ranks.

Today's announcement, however, puts that theory to rest.

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November 26, 2012

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NASA, the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), and their international partners have selected two veteran spacefarers for a one-year mission aboard the International Space Station in 2015. This mission will include collecting scientific data important to future human exploration of our solar system. NASA has selected Scott Kelly and Roscosmos has chosen Mikhail Kornienko.

Kelly and Kornienko will launch aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in spring 2015 and will land in Kazakhstan in spring 2016. Kelly and Kornienko already have a connection; Kelly was a backup crew member for the stations Expedition 23/24 crews, where Kornienko served as a flight engineer.

The goal of their yearlong expedition aboard the orbiting laboratory is to understand better how the human body reacts and adapts to the harsh environment of space. Data from the 12-month expedition will help inform current assessments of crew performance and health and will determine better and validate countermeasures to reduce the risks associated with future exploration as NASA plans for missions around the moon, an asteroid and ultimately Mars.

Congratulations to Scott and Mikhail on their selection for this important mission, said William Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for Human Exploration and Operations at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Their skills and previous experience aboard the space station align with the missions requirements. The one-year increment will expand the bounds of how we live and work in space and will increase our knowledge regarding the effects of microgravity on humans as we prepare for future missions beyond low-Earth orbit.

Selection of the candidate for the one year mission was thorough and difficult due to the number of suitable candidates from the Cosmonaut corps, said head of Russian Federal Space Agency, Vladimir Popovkin. We have chosen the most responsible, skilled and enthusiastic crew members to expand space exploration, and we have full confidence in them.

Kelly, a captain in the U.S. Navy, is from Orange, N.J. He has degrees from the State University of New York Maritime College and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He served as a pilot on space shuttle mission STS-103 in 1999, commander on STS-118 in 2007, flight engineer on the International Space Station Expedition 25 in 2010 and commander of Expedition 26 in 2011. Kelly has logged more than 180 days in space.

Kornienko is from the Syzran, Kuibyshev region of Russia. He is a former paratrooper officer and graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute as a specialist in airborne systems. He has worked in the space industry since 1986 when he worked at Rocket and Space Corporation-Energia as a spacewalk handbook specialist. He was selected as an Energia test cosmonaut candidate in 1998 and trained as an International Space Station Expedition 8 backup crew member. Kornienko served as a flight engineer on the stations Expedition 23/24 crews in 2010 and has logged more than 176 days in space.

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American astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko will launch on the one-year space station flight in spring 2015 and return to Earth in spring 2016.

A veteran NASA space commander and Russian cosmonaut have signed on for the ultimate space voyage: a yearlong trip on the International Space Station.

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American astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko will launch on theone-year space station flightin spring 2015 and return to Earth in spring 2016, NASA officials announced today (Nov. 26). They will begin their mission training in early 2013.

The mission will help NASA understand how the human body adapts to extremely long space missions, such as voyages around the moon, to an asteroid and ultimately to Mars, NASA officials said.

"Congratulations to Scott and Mikhail on their selection for this important mission," William Gerstenmaier, NASA's associate administrator for Human Exploration and Operations in Washington, said in a statement. "Their skills and previous experience aboard the space station align with the mission's requirements. The one-year increment will expand the bounds of how we live and work in space and will increase our knowledge regarding the effects of microgravity on humans as we prepare for future missions beyond low-Earth orbit." [Most Extreme Human Spaceflight Records]

NASA is developing spacecraft and mission plans to send astronauts to visit a near-Earth asteroid by 2025, a goal set by President Barack Obama. The space agency is also reportedly studying potentialmanned missions back to the moon.

Kelly, 48, is a U.S. Navy captain who has flown on two space shuttle missions and one long-duration expedition on the International Space Station. He commanded the space station's Expedition 26 mission in 2010 during his third spaceflight.

Kelly hails from West Orange, N.J., and joined NASA's astronaut corps in 1996. His identical twin brother Mark Kelly also served as a Navy captain and NASA astronaut before retiring from the military and spaceflight in 2011.

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US-Russian crew chosen for yearlong space voyage

MOSCOW (AP) The U.S. and Russia named the two men on Monday who will spend a year aboard the International Space Station to gather more data on the impact of outer space on humans to help prepare for future interplanetary missions.

NASA's Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko of Russia's space agency Roscosmo will take part in the mission set to start in spring 2015. A key goal is to help reduce health risks for planned NASA missions around the moon, an asteroid and ultimately Mars.

William Gerstenmaier, NASA's associate administrator, said the year spent on the Space Station "will increase our knowledge regarding the effects of microgravity on humans as we prepare for future missions beyond low-Earth orbit."

Kelly, a veteran of several space missions who has logged more than 180 days in space, and Kornienko, who traveled to the station in 2010, will start training for the mission early next year.

Kelly's twin brother, Mark Kelly is the husband of former Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords who was targeted in a 2011 assassination attempt and he was the skipper of Space Shuttle Endeavour on its last mission in 2011. He then retired.

International crews so far have done only six-month stints on the International Space Station, although many Russian cosmonauts spent longer stints on the Soviet-built Mir space station before it was discarded in 2001. Russian cosmonaut Valery Polyakov holds the world's record for the longest ever single space mission, having spent 437 days in space in 1994-1995.

Boris Morukov, the head of the Moscow-based Institute for Medical and Biological Problems, Russia's main space medicine research center, said on Interfax news agency that the forthcoming mission by Kelly and Kornienko may include tighter controls of their food rations and the limiting of communications to simulate an interplanetary travel, among other things.

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