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May 10, 2024 · Scott Kelly (born February 21, 1964, Orange, New Jersey, U.S.) is an American astronaut who made four spaceflights, the longest of which lasted 340 days. He is the twin brother of American astronaut and senator Mark Kelly. Scott Kelly received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the State University of New York Maritime College ...
Sep 4, 2019 · Scott Kelly is a former NASA astronaut who is best known for spending nearly a year on the International Space Station and for spending 520 days in space, which puts him on the list of Americans ...
- What Does Space Smell like?
- Is There Any Evidence That Astronauts Live Longer?
- Did It Feel Like, “Man, I Gotta Work All The Time”?
- Those Two Things Being …
- And When You’Re Outside The Station on Your Spacewalks, It’S Like That Times 10.
- Did You Ever Lose Anything outside?
- Did You Lose Anything in The Station?
- Does It Feel Like You’Re All in It Together?
- Tell Me About CO2 Levels and How They Affected you.
- You’Re Not Supposed to Use Afrin For An Entire Year!
It smells different to different people. Some people say it smells sweet. To me it smells like burnt metal, like if you took a blowtorch to some steel or something. Maybe like welding or sparklers? On like the Fourth of July? A very distinct smell. We need to get some sparklers to check it out because I haven’t smelled a sparkler in a while. I need...
Recently I was told by someone in our medical department at NASA that we went over the point of statistical significance for cancer in astronauts and people that have flown in space—so, more than average. But I think, subjectively speaking, just my observation, as these Apollo guys die—a lot of them are dying in their 80s. So that’s pretty good, if...
I think some people feel that way. I kind of felt that way on my [first, six-month ISS mission]. But having flown for six months, and then a few years later flying for a year, I realized I couldn’t do that. So I definitely had to pace myself throughout the course of the year. I mean, my goal is to get to the end with as much energy and enthusiasm a...
Moving stuff that’s heavy. And then getting behind your entertainment system to hook up the VCR is easier, because you don’t have to do it like this [sits up straight], you can float upside down and get into whatever body position is most efficient. Everything else is harder to do. The more time you spend in space, the better you get at it and you ...
It’s even more significant because there, if you lose something not only do you not ever find it again, but it is a piece of orbital debris. So, an orbit later whatever you lost is potentially going to hit you.
No. Nope. I never lost anything. I could’ve. I always say, never criticize somebody because as soon as you do that, that’s going to be you.
All kinds of stuff! One of the last things I remember losing was this fancy, 3-D printed cover for some experiment. It was for the camera and I turn around and the thing’s gone, and they didn’t have a spare. I’ve got to see if they’ve found that thing yet. Oh, yeah. We lost a bag of screws and washers one time. We were getting ready to repair the $...
Yes! Absolutely. We actually do some things to help each other that we don’t even share with the ground because then it creates like bureaucratic … issues for them to deal with. I’ve been asked to help fix some of their hardware, their treadmill one time. We help each other getting trash off the space station without telling the folks in Houston. I...
So when the CO2is at our normal low levels on the space station, it’s 10 times what it is on Earth. And everyone is affected differently. Certain people react more to it than others. It made me really congested, it burned my eyes. I mean, I used Sudafed and Afrin almost for an entire year.
I know, right? I mean I wouldn’t use it every day, but I would use it when I had to. It’s not like I got addicted, but I would use a little bit of it here and there when the CO2was high. It also causes kind of a fogginess of thought, and I think it affects your cognitive ability, your ability to focus. I don’t know if that’s because there’s some ki...
Mar 2, 2016 · Stephanie Schierholz. Headquarters, Washington. 202-358-1100. stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov. Dan Huot. Johnson Space Center, Houston. 281-483-5111. daniel.g.huot@nasa.gov. NASA astronaut and Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly and his Russian counterpart Mikhail Kornienko returned to Earth Tuesday after a historic 340-day.
Dec 25, 2020 · Astronaut Capt Scott Kelly's year in space. ISS crew members end year in space. It's hardly the first time Captain Kelly, a former military pilot, has been in a life-threatening situation. But the ...
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Scott Kelly | READ MORE. Scott Kelly is a former military fighter pilot and test pilot, an engineer, a retired astronaut, and a retired U.S. Navy captain. A veteran of four space flights, Kelly ...
“Don’t get the idea that there was a shortage of candidates,” says Scott Kelly, a short guy with a shaved head and a stocky build. “A lot of people wanted to do it.” And Kelly won the prize.
