Scott Kelly

1 week ago - A veteran of four space flights, Kelly commanded the International Space Station (ISS) on Expeditions 26, 45, and 46. Kelly's first spaceflight was as pilot of Space Shuttle Discovery during STS-103 in December 1999. This was the third servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, and lasted ...

November 18, 2020 - Scott Kelly, American astronaut who made four spaceflights between 1999 and 2016, the longest of which lasted 340 days and was one of the longest spaceflights ever. He is the identical twin brother of American astronaut and senator Mark Kelly.

September 4, 2019 - Kelly retired from NASA on April 1, 2016. NASA astronaut Scott Kelly (left) and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko (right) spent a total of 340 days in space on their one-year mission to better understand how the human body reacts and adapts ...

NASA EXPERIENCE: Selected by NASA in April 1996, Kelly reported to the Johnson Space Center in August 1996.

April 11, 2016 - On March 27, 2015, NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration Astronaut Scott Kelly launched to the International Space Station to begin a historic mission that is sure to have a lasting impact on human spaceflight.

December 17, 2023 - In his career, Kelly was part of four space flights and commanded the International Space Station (ISS) on Expeditions 26, 45, and 46. He joined a NASA mission to study the long-term effects of astronauts in space and spent 340 days in space, ...

July 26, 2023 - Joining their return trip aboard a Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft was Sergey Volkov, also of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, who arrived on the station Sept. 4, 2015. The crew touched down southeast of the remote town of Dzhezkazgan.

December 18, 2014 - From 1999, the brothers served a combined seven missions, though they never went to space together. (NASA had no policy against that, but Scott nixed the idea. “I thought it would really suck for our kids to lose both their dad and their uncle ...

April 13, 2019 - The results hint at what humans will have to endure on long journeys through space. ... For 340 days, Scott Kelly circled the Earth aboard the International Space Station, gathering data about himself.

January 31, 2022 - The Soyuz spacecraft carrying Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko lands on March 2nd, 2016.

August 8, 2017 - Scott Kelly upon his return to Earth. NASA · Today is my last in space. It’s March 1, 2016, and I’ve been up here for 340 days, along with my colleague and friend Mikhail “Misha” Kornienko.

December 8, 2023 - An agency wide All-Hands event on May 25 at NASA Headquarters featured Deputy Administrator Dava Newman and retired NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, reflecting on Kelly’s one-year mission aboard the International Space Station.

November 1, 2017 - During Scott Kelly’s 20 years as a NASA astronaut, he ventured into space four times, capping his career with a yearlong stay on the International Space Station, during which he served a stint as commander.

Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly on a Dec. 21, 2015 spacewalk. ... Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany and Poland. ... NASA astronaut Scott Kelly shared this photograph on social media, writing,"#Aurora trailing a colorful veil over Earth this ...

1 week ago - Kelly and Kornienko launched on 27 March 2015 on Soyuz TMA-16M, along with Gennady Padalka. The mission encompassed Expeditions 43, 44, 45, and 46. The pair safely landed in Kazakhstan on 2 March 2016, returning aboard Soyuz TMA-18M with Sergey ...

July 26, 2023 - ... When he lands on Earth Tuesday, March 2, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly will have spent a total of 340 days in space, double the length of typical mission, so researchers can better understand how the human body ...

December 6, 2019 - That growth didn’t last, however. Within 48 hours of his March 2016 return to Earth, Scott’s telomeres quickly shrank. Within several months, most of them were back to preflight lengths.

June 27, 2019 - Scott first flew into space as the pilot of the space shuttle Discovery on the STS-103 mission (December 19–27, 1999), which replaced the gyroscopes and computer on the Hubble Space Telescope.

Just before the 15th anniversary of continuous human presence on the International Space Station on Nov. 2, 2015, U.S. astronaut and commander of the current Expedition 45 crew, Scott Kelly, is breaking spaceflight records.

Astronaut Scott Kelly along with his brother, former Astronaut Mark Kelly speak to news media on Jan. 19, 2015 about Scott Kelly's 1-year mission. JSC2015E004212 (01/19/2015) —On Jan.