One Year in Space Crew Arrives at the International Space Station
One Year in Space Crew Arrives at the International Space Station.
NASA
Following a six-hour trip from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 43 Flight Engineer Scott Kelly of NASA, Soyuz Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer Mikhail Kornienko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) were welcomed aboard the International Space Station on March 27 U.S. time (March 28 Kazakh time).
They were greeted by station Commander Terry Virts of NASA and Flight Engineers Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos and Samantha Cristoforetti of ESA, the European Space Agency. For Kelly and Kornienko, their entrance into the station began a year on the orbital laboratory where they will conduct extensive research on the effect of long duration space travel on the human body.
