A year in orbit: preparing the human body for a future Mars mission
In short: NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and science advisor John Holdren welcomed astronaut Scott Kelly to the International Space Station. This mission marks the beginning of a year-long study on the effects of weightlessness, providing essential data for future human travel to Mars.
Launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, Scott Kelly joined cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Mikhail Kornienko for Expedition 43. Kelly and Kornienko are scheduled to remain on the station until March 2016.
The primary objective of this extended stay is to conduct biomedical experiments. By observing how the human body reacts to long-term weightlessness, researchers aim to build the knowledge base required to sustain astronauts during the much longer journey to Mars.
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