Tuesday, April 19, 2016

BEAM already inflated – Polish Radio


                             Astronaut is the longest residing in the cosmos American – spent a total of 520 days.
                         

Scott Kelly retirements April 1.

In early March, Scott Kelly returned from his last space mission. Along with Russian Mikhail Kornijenko stayed until 340 days on the International Space Station (ISS), and therefore twice as long as it takes standard mission on the ISS.

At the time, Kelly and Kornijenko studied the effect of prolonged exposure in space on the human body man, for possible flight later in the future to Mars.

After retiring Kelly will continue to cooperate with NASA, among others, in the research.

Amazing photos and videos

Scott Kelly became famous all over the world horizontal interest admiration and emotion photos of the Earth and outer space. In memory of his photographs were made of colored continents, illuminated by night cities (including Warsaw), the peaks of the mountains. Twitter and website Instagram posted about 2,000 entries and various photographs.

all, as he said, began with the words of President Barack Obama, who before the mission advised him half jokingly, half seriously, that placed the photos on Instagram.

He talked also during the chat with Internet users on a variety of interesting details stay on mission.

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the previous American record length of the flight was to Michael López-Alegríi, who spent 215 days in orbit in a row. This was in 2006 and 2007. Absolute record stay in space is Russian cosmonaut Valery Poles, who in the years 1994-1995 he worked at the station MIR 438 days.

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