The Kelly twins who are both age 51 are involved in NASA’s first human experiment called the Twins Study to assess the long term effects of space radiation on humans including microgravity conditions on physical and mental states.
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“You just get more comfortable”, he added.
“It’s unbelievable because it’s faster than if you were on Earth and sending it to a clinical lab”, says Andy Feinberg, director of the Center for Epigenetics at Johns Hopkins University, and one of the bio-med researchers working on the year in space mission.
If he wants to keep in shape, Kelly has to faithfully exercise for two hours each day, so his bones, muscles and heart don’t deteriorate; even so, there have been reports on bone mass loss and weaker vision, according to NASA.
“I think that it’s so exciting, and like Sebastian, I’m overwhelmed to be here”, Davis said.
Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko agreed to double the length of a typical astronaut’s mission at the ISS in order to help the world’s space agencies study how long-term space travel affects the human body and mind. “The lighting’s always pretty much the same – the smells, the sounds, everything’s the same”, Kelly said.
It will take time and funding for NASA to build a new generation of spaceships since its space shuttle fleet was retired in 2011. Your clarity of thought is greater. All that waste will be discharged at intervals from the space station and will burn up in Earth’s atmosphere, looking just like shooting stars.
The twins talked about the project on Monday, with Mark speaking at the National Press Club and Scott joining him through a video hookup from the space station.
Kelly has spent about 342 days during a mission on the worldwide Space Station, and during that timeframe he produced about 180 pounds or 82 kilograms of poop. They have a relatively quick way to get home if the need arises, and their crewmates change from time to time.
On Tuesday, Kelly and Kornienko celebrated the halfway point of their journey and NASA tweeted to congratulate them. We can never leave. Although I’m not claustrophobic at all, it would be nice to get outside.
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“The exciting thing about founding The Mars Generation is that I am not doing it alone”, Harrison told Space.com. “But we can’t. And that’s what I miss, after people”. Red the original story here.
