From left to direia – Astronauts Scott Kelly, Gennady Padalka and Mikhail Kornienko – Photo taken: jourliq. with
A US astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut preparing to be a year in the International Space Station.
The launch is scheduled for today at 19:42, Kazakhstan and has the mission to test for long periods, the resistance of the human body in space.
Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko, flight engineers, follow aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, also with another Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, who will return to Earth after six months.
Most of shipments International Space Station lasts four to six months, however, this mission, developed in collaboration between the US space agency NASA and Russian Roscosmos, scientists hope to better understand how the human body reacts and adapts in space for a long period of time.
In a statement, NASA explained that the expedition is key when it intends to take the man to Mars, a journey that will last over a year. Long exposure to a zero gravity environment can affect, in many ways, the human body, especially elicit changes in vision, muscle atrophy and bone loss.
For the US space agency, “psychology human is also an important area of research, “given that the astronauts will move, the space station in confined spaces and be isolated from the rest of the people.
While Scott Kelly is in orbit, his brother twin, Mark Kelly, who was also NASA astronaut, will participate in comparative genetic studies paa which better any change in the human body
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Source:. jn.pt / observer .com / jourliq.com
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