Launch of the Soyuz, began the experiment of twins. First mission … – Quotidiano.net

March 27, 2015

This is the first mission of the one-year and intended to pave the way for long journeys to Mars. The twins Kelly in the middle of an experiment, and the other one on the spacecraft to Earth to assess changes in weightlessness

Astana, March 27, 2015 – You launched the Soyuz that will bring the ISS American Scott Kelly in the first mission the last one year ever organized by NASA and intended to pave the way for long journeys to Mars. The changes that will occur in the absence of weight on Scott Kelly will be compared with those identical twin Mark, that remains to Earth. On the Soyuz are the Russians Gennady Padalka and Mikhail Kornienko. As waiting Space Station astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti. The first two, both flight engineers, will remain on the International Space Station (Year in Space) for 342 days and their return is scheduled for March 3, 2016, the third fall in September.

When they arrived on the ISS will be welcomed also by astronaut Italian Samantha Cristoforetti who will return to Earth on May 14. . The mission which will start from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan will also serve to understand, study and identify which path to take for future flights beyond the orbit of the moon. Will be used to analyze the behavior of the human body in conditions of prolonged absence of gravity. All aimed at a hypothetical, which for the moment is not part of any real project, a long journey to Mars.

Other studies will address the cardiovascular, ocular, psychological, mood cognitive functions up to stress. The activities that Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko take place will be constantly monitored and verified in data collection by Mark Kelly, sister of Scott, however, being at rest, is on the ground. Scott and Mark were born February 21, 1964 in New Jersey and are the children of mom and dad policemen. Padalka, the fifth mission, will return after 168 days with the new primacy of stay in space. When land will have exceeded 870 days beating the previous limit (803) that belonged to compatriot Sergei Krikalyov Konstantinovic. Of the latter, cosmonaut of St. Petersburg, is the record of uninterrupted stay in space. On 25 March 1992 Krikalyov returned after 311 days spent on the Space Station Mir. For this he was considered “the last citizen of the Soviet Union.”