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Crew starts one-year space mission
Russian-U.S. crew arrives safely at the International Space Station for the start of a ground-breaking year-long stay. Paul Chapman reports. Subscribe: http://smarturl.it/reuterssubscribe...

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US-Russian crew enter International Space Station
NASA astronaut and Russian cosmonauts to spend a full year in space. Check out our website: http://uatoday.tv Facebook: https://facebook.com/uatodaytv Twitter: https://twitter.com/uatodaytv.

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Is the ISS actually in Outer Space?
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One-year crew launches to ISS on This Week @NASA
The much-anticipated March 27 launch to the International Space Station of NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Expedition 43 crewmates Gennady Padalka and Mikhail Kornienko of the Russian Federal...

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Two spaceflyers blasted off on the first-ever yearlong mission to the International Space Station, NASA announced its plan to haul a boulder from a near-Earth asteroid to lunar orbit and yet more ingredients for life were found on Mars. Here's a look at Space.com's top stories of the week.

1-year space station mission blasts off

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft launched the International Space Stations first one-year crew on Friday (March 27), kicking off an epic voyage for NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko. [Full Story: Liftoff! US, Russia Launch Historic One-Year Space Mission]

The science of the yearlong space station mission

Science experiments conducted on the International Space Station during the orbiting outpost's first yearlong mission could help open the door to deep space for NASA. [Full Story: A Year in Space: The Science Behind the Epic Space Station Voyage]

NASA opts to pluck a boulder, not grab a whole asteroid

NASA's bold asteroid-capture mission will pluck a boulder off a big space rock rather than grab an entire near-Earth object, agency officials announced Wednesday (March 25). [Full Story: For Asteroid-Capture Mission, NASA Picks 'Option B' for Boulder]

'Fixed' nitrogen found on Mars

Nitrogen was available on ancient Mars in a form that microbes could have used to build key biomolecules, and atmospheric carbon monoxide has been a feasible energy source for life throughout the Red Planet's history, two new studies suggest. [Full Story: More Ingredients for Life Identified on Mars]

Opportunity rover completes its Mars marathon

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The mission will help NASA understand how the body could handle a trip to Mars

Russia's Soyuz rocket stands poised to launch NASA's Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko to space for a one-year stay on the International Space Station. Credit:NASA/Victor Zelentsov

A three-person crew will blast off to the International Space Station today (March 27), and two of them won't be coming back to Earth for a full year. You can watch live online as the yearlong mission begins.

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Gennady Padalka will fly to the station atop a Russian Soyuz spacecraft from Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Central Asia. Kelly and Kornienko will participate in the yearlong mission aboard the orbiting outpost, while Padalka spends six months on the station before flying home. Watch the one-year space crew launch live on Space.com starting at 2:30 p.m. EDT (1830 GMT) via NASA TV. The three crewmembers are scheduled to blast off at 3:42 p.m. EDT (in the wee hours of Saturday morning, Baikonur time).

Kornienko and Kelly's one-year mission will help scientists on the ground gather much-needed data about how the human body behaves during a long-term spaceflight. It will take much more than a year for astronauts to get to Mars, a major NASA goal going forward, so learning more about how the body reacts to a long spaceflight is necessary before people can fly to the Red Planet safely. [One-Year Space Station Mission: Full Coverage]

"This knowledge is critical as NASA looks toward human journeys deeper into the solar system, including to and from Mars, which could last 500 days or longer," NASA officials said in a statement. "It also carries potential benefits for humans here on Earth, from helping patients recover from long periods of bed rest to improving monitoring for people whose bodies are unable to fight infections."

Scientists know a lot about how bodies change after six months in microgravity (the usual amount of time a crewmember spends on the International Space Station), but this yearlong mission could help researchers understand other ways astronauts change after more time in orbit. For example, officials will monitor Kelly and Kornienko's mental health, eyes, muscle and bone mass to determine what kind of ill effects the long-duration stay in space might have on them.

NASA's Scott Kelly an astronaut scheduled to spend one year on the International Space Station waits to check out the Russian Soyuz spacecraft that will take him to the orbiting outpost on March 27, 2015.Credit:NASA/Bill Ingalls

Kelly's yearlong mission will mark the first time an American has spent a continuous year in orbit. Some Soviet-era cosmonauts spent a year (or more) in space during the 1980s and 1990s on the space station Mir, but this mission will be the first time the United States and Russia have collaborated for a yearlong spaceflight.

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