Soyuz launched into space Launch of the “Twins Mission” – The Arena

KAZAKHSTAN. At Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan was launched Soyuz that will carry on the Space Station ISS American Scott Kelly in the first mission of the one-year ever organized by NASA and meant 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 of identical twin Mark, who remains on Earth. On the Soyuz are the Russians Gennady Padalka and Mikhail Kornienko. As waiting Space Station astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti.