What's behind the dream of colonizing Mars?
May 26, 2015  00:04
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On March 27, an American astronaut named Scott Kelly blasted off from Earth and, six hours later, clambered onto the International Space Station. 

He has been there ever since. Each day, the International Space Station orbits the planet fifteen and a half times, which means that after a month Kelly had completed more than four hundred and fifty circuits. By now, he has made nearly a thousand.

Kelly, who is fifty-one, is shortfive feet sevenand stocky, with a round face and a thin smile. 

If all goes well, he will not return to sea level until March, 2016. At that point, he will have set an endurance record for an American in space.

Fluids collect in places they shouldnt. Muscles atrophy and bones grow brittle. Astronauts internal organs drift upward and their spines extend. It is expected that by the time Kelly finally descends he will have stretched to five feet nine.

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