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Next year in space: Astronaut, cosmonaut look forward to year on space station [i]For Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko, the upcoming new year brings a special reason to be excited. For unlike everyone else on this planet, Kelly, as a NASA astronaut, and Kornienko, a cosmonaut, will begin 2015 by launching on the first yearlong mission on the International Space Station. "What makes this exciting, for me, this one-year flight is about the science and everything we're going to learn from expanding the envelope on the space station greater than we've currently done," Kelly said on Thursday (Dec. 18), speaking at a press conference previewing the yearlong mission at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Paris. "We're going to go to Mars some day [and] the International Space Station is really a great platform to learn much more about having people live and work in space for longer durations." "This one year flight is one of the many stepping stones towards leaving low Earth orbit," he said.[/i]
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