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340 Days Later, NASA’s One Year Mission Concludes
By 2016.03.02 0 Comments Read More →

340 Days Later, NASA’s One Year Mission Concludes

  Overnight, Scott Kelly returned from his 340 day mission aboard ISS, landing safely in Kazakhstan along with crewmates Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov. Although considerably less American media attention was directed his way, Kornienko’s stay aboard the station was the same as Kelly’s as part of a joint mission. The complete NASA.gov story is included below, […]

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NASA’s Year Long Mission Gets Underway
By 2015.03.28 1 Comments Read More →

NASA’s Year Long Mission Gets Underway

Launch of Expedition 43 / Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls It’s not a five year mission, and it certainly isn’t going anywhere “no-one has gone before,” but NASA’s longest manned space mission got underway on Friday with the liftoff of a Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft carrying veteran American astronaut Scott Kelly, and Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Gennady […]

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