NASA Administrator Greets the Agency’s One-Year Crew Member to ISS
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Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 43 Flight Engineer Scott Kelly of NASA was welcomed for his year-long mission in a call to the complex March 30 by NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, John Holdren, science advisor to President Obama and director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and former astronaut Mark Kelly. Speaking from Washington, Bolden greeted Kelly less than three days after Kelly’s launch to the station on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, with cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Mikhail Kornienko of the Russian Federal Space Agency. Kelly and Kornienko will remain on the outpost through March 2016, conducting critical biomedical experiments that will expand the database needed to understand the potential effects of weightlessness on the human body for a trip to Mars.
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NASA Administrator Greets the Agency’s One-Year Crew Member to ISS
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May I please take advantage of this opportunity? If it as Director Bolden just said, that we are working together with the Russians as one ISS and one crew, then why do we supporters never get to see the “Russian Side”? In fact, if this is so, then why to we still have an “American Side” and a “Russian Side”? I would really like to see the other half of the space station.
Now, all we need to do is wait…
What these men are doing is fantastic, 1 year wow its a long time, I look forward to all that is too come..
On the voyage to mars we are all from the same country that is earth.its a pity we don’t have an earthian banner for credentials in case we are greeted by martians.
I appreciate the experiment but why go to mars. clearly nothing there to explore + how will they come back??