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Space station's first year-long crew counts days to launch, debuts mission patch [i]Scott Kelly is 7 months and 17 days from becoming the first NASA astronaut to spend a year in space. Well, maybe not a full year, at least based on the currently published schedules. Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail "Misha" Kornienko are slated to launch to the International Space Station on March 28, 2015 for the first yearlong expedition aboard the orbiting laboratory. They are scheduled to return to Earth 346 days later – 19 days shy of an entire year – on March 7, 2016. "I made a deal with the station program, they'll extend that to make it a whole year, but that doesn't show up on paper yet," Kelly told collectSPACE.com in a recent interview. "It better be [a full year], although I could be regretting that when March 7 rolls around and I think I could be home."[/i]
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