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NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are expected to speak to the media in their first news conference since returning to Earth on March 18.
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"It's about what this human spaceflight program is about. It's our national goals," he told Hemmer.
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Scott Kelly and Mark Kelly are American astronauts and identical twin brothers. They participated in NASA's Twins Study, conducted between 2015 and 2018.
But it was one trip to the stars back in 2015 that saw NASA focus on the astronauts focused on as twins, with Scott blasted off to space for 340 consecutive days while Mark remained at home. And despite being at home, it was all systems go when it came to studying both of the Kelly twins as part of the appropriately named 'Twins Study'.
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Kelly was studied against his identical twin brother, retired astronaut Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., who remained on Earth. NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were the flight crew on ...
Astronaut Scott Kelly knows this better than most people. He spent 340 days aboard the International Space Station for NASA's twin study. That's where they compared his physical state in space. To his twin brother Mark back on Earth, they found that space ...
Netizens react The best real-life example of space-induced time dilation comes from NASA’s famous twin experiment involving Mark and Scott Kelly—two identical twins who were both astronauts. Scott Kelly spent 340 days in space, while his brother Mark ...
Most of these changes are expected to return to normal. A 2019 study conducted by NASA sent astronaut Scott Kelly to space while his twin brother, astronaut and senator Mark Kelly, remained on Earth.
The commander of NASA’s Boeing flight test partially blamed himself on Monday for the mission’s shortcomings, which led to an unexpected months-long stay aboard the International Space Station and a political fight over the two-person crew’s return two weeks ago.