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One-year mission on the International Space Station: NASA and Roscosmos select two veterans

Washington, USA - Kelly and Kornienko are expected to leave in spring 2015

NASA and Roscosmos, respectively the space agencies of United States and Russia, have selected the crew which will be on board of the mission, scheduled in 2015, in which two astronauts will remain on board of the International Space Station (ISS) for an entire year: the two spacefarers are Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko. The two cosmonauts will launch aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft from...

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