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Historic yearlong mission crew launches to space station on Soyuz TMA-16M [i]An American astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut have embarked on a historic yearlong mission into space to support future human journeys to Mars. NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Roscosmos cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko left the Earth for the International Space Station on Friday (March 27), launching at 2:42 p.m. CDT (1942 GMT; 1:42 a.m. local time March 28) from Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Commanding their Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft was Roscosmos cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, who will stay onboard the space station for the more typical six months, but will set a new record for cumulative time in space in the process. Lifting off atop a Soyuz-FG rocket from the same launch pad where the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin, left the Earth on April 12, 1961, the Soyuz TMA-16M crew entered a four-orbit, 6-hour trajectory to rendezvous and dock with the space station's Poisk module at about 8:35 p.m. CDT (0135 GMT).[/i]
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