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NASA Administrator, President’s Science Advisor to Speak with Astronaut on Yearlong Space Station Mission

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NASA

Mar 30, 2015
MEDIA ADVISORYM15-049
Fiery nighttime launch of Soyuz rocket from Baikonur
The Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft is seen as it launches to the International Space Station with Expedition 43 NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly, Russian Cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko, and Gennady Padalka of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) onboard Saturday, March 28, 2015, Kazakh time (March 27 Eastern time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. As the one-year crew, Kelly and Kornienko will return to Earth on Soyuz TMA-18M in March 2016. Credits: NASA/Bill Ingalls

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will be joined by John Holdren, science advisor to President Obama and director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and former astronaut Mark Kelly for the first public conversation with astronaut Scott Kelly from the International Space Station on Monday, March 30.

The event will air live on NASA Television at 2:45 p.m. EDT.

Kelly launched Friday on the first-ever yearlong mission to the International Space Station. His mission will help scientists better understand how the human body reacts and adapts to the harsh environment of space, and is critical to advancing NASA’s plans to send humans on a journey to Mars.

Mark Kelly, who flew four space shuttle missions and commanded the final flight of space shuttle Endeavour, will participate in biomedical studies on the ground while his twin is on board the orbiting laboratory.

More information about the International Space Station and its crews is available at:

https://www.nasa.gov/station

Follow Scott Kelly on Twitter and Instagram at:

http://www.twitter.com/StationCDRKelly

and

https://instagram.com/stationcdrkelly/

For Scott Kelly’s full biography, visit:

http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/kellysj.html

For Mark Kelly’s full NASA biography, visit:

http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/kellyme.html

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Lauren B. Worley
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1288
lauren.b.worley@nasa.gov
Nicole Cloutier-Lemasters
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111
nicole.cloutier-1@nasa.gov