In the apparatus, a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, also follows the Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, who, unlike his colleagues, will return to Earth after six months.
It is the first time that astronauts will remain a consecutive year the International Space Station.
The mission, a joint NASA and the Russian space agency Roscosmos, to test the resistance of the human body to exposure of a zero gravity environment for a long period of time at a time that projects lead man to Mars, an expedition that will last over a year.
If all goes as scheduled, the Soyuz vehicle will reach the International Space Station six hours after take-off.
Kelly, Kornienko and Padalka will join three other colleagues who are on the space station since November, including astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, the first Italian woman who traveled into space.
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