With news of money being donated to prevent Skynet-like disaster with artificial intelligence and the possibility of humankind going to Venus in the near future, the NASA Space Station mission is only the latest in a series of interesting news - it seems the future science fiction has promised has finally arrived!
Over the past few months, the NASA Space Station mission has been making news due to the fact that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration will be sending an astronaut into space for a period of one full year, along with a Russian cosmonaut sent by that country's space program.
More than twenty years after the end of the Cold War, it's amazing to see that the United States and Russia are still the leading countries in space exploration, the latest of which news is the NASA Space Station mission, which will be sending an American astronaut along with a Russian cosmonaut into space by the end of March, according to a new NASA statement.
CNN reports that the NASA Space Station mission had its first official briefing last Thursday, with astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko spending a full year in space, a mission that's new to NASA but not to the Russian space program as, between 1987 and 1995, the Eurasian country sent four cosmonauts on International Space Station missions that lasted a year or more.
According to Raw Story, the two space men will leave planet Earth for the International Space Station on March 27, accompanied by another Russian cosmonaut, Gennady Padalka, who will be staying in zero gravity with them fox six months. They will be leaving Earth on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft that will be launching from Kazakhstan, in the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
Kelly has been on two stints at ISS, with a total of 180 days in space; Kornienko has been up in the skies 176; the most impressive is Padalka, who has been in space for almost 900 days, and is now wondering what effects this will ultimately have on his body.
The past Thursday briefing was only the first conference about the NASA Space Station mission, as Space.com reports there will be more before the March launch.
