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Astronaut and cosmonaut at halfway point of year-long space station mission [i]One hundred seventy one (171) days ago, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko launched on the first (almost) year-long mission aboard the International Space Station. On Tuesday (Sept. 15), they had another 171 days to go. Not that anyone in space was counting. "I hope I do not get to the point where I start counting the days," said Kelly in an NASA interview a few days before reaching the halfway point of his and Kornienko's mission. "Every day in space is a great day." The pair — two out of the station's six Expedition 45 crew members — are set to come home March 3, 2016. They are spending 342 days in space to gather data about how their bodies react and adapt to long duration spaceflight in preparation for sending astronauts further out into the solar system.[/i]
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