New ISS Commander Onboard

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The reins of the International Space Station were passed from NASA’s Scott Kelly to his NASA crewmate Tim Kopra during a ceremony on the orbital outpost on Feb. 29. Kelly is returning to Earth with cosmonauts Sergey Volkov and Mikhail Kornienko of Roscosmos March 2 to wrap up what for Kelly and Kornienko will be 340 days in space and six months in orbit for Volkov. During their year-long mission on the station, Kelly and Kornienko gathered valuable biomedical data on the long duration effects of weightlessness on the human body that will be used to formulate a human mission to Mars. Kopra remains on the station as commander along with Flight Engineers Yuri Malenchenko of Roscosmos and Tim Peake of the European Space Agency until early June.

Published 2016-02-29 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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