What happens to the human body during a year in orbit?
In short: In this NASA footage, Expedition 43 Flight Engineers Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko discuss the realities of their year-long mission aboard the International Space Station.
During in-flight interviews on June 4, NASA's Scott Kelly and Roscosmos' Mikhail Kornienko shared insights into their progress during the third month of their mission. Their year-long stay on the orbital laboratory is designed to collect essential biomedical data regarding how long-duration weightlessness affects the human body, research that is vital for planning future missions to Mars.
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