So far journeys to Mars are the preserve of science fiction movie, something to imagine how feasible only in the distant future, but NASA is working on for some time, and precisely in this excellent sent in orbit the first mission, lasting a year, to usher in a new era, we can define “long trips”.
It took off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Soyuz that will bring the International Space Station NASA astronaut Scott Kelly retired (51 years) and Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko (54 years) and Gennady Padalka (56 years): their stay at the station will be double the normal, to start to see how it reacts l ‘ man as prolonged stays in space.
In addition, the ground remains Mark Kelly, the twin brother of Scott, for an experiment that NASA had long waited for, that of the twin paradox (the consequence most popular Einstein’s theory of relativity): since the two are identical twins and have therefore the same DNA, the results will finally get a better idea of the effects on the human body of long periods spent in zero gravity.
On board the Space Station, which reached in six hours, await, with Samantha Cristoforetti, Commander Terry Virts and Russian Anton Shkaplerov.
Author: Angela Sorrentino
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