According to the local news on October 30, Scott Kelly broke the US Astronaut’s longest record of consecutive days in the space.
The former record was made by Hispanic American astronaut Michael López-Alegría, staying 215 days in the space in 2007. Surprisingly, Scott Kelly stayed 216 days in the space already and this number will be added. He will be possibly continuous living in the space for 342 days as per his plan.
In addition, Scott becomes the one who lives longest time as accumulated among the US astronauts. He lived 396 days as accumulated. His record will be 522 days living in the space when this commission is completed.
Scott’s record is far away from the one made by Russian astronaut, Valeri Polyakov. Valeri Polyakov continuous lived 438 days in former Russian Mir Space Station. The continuous living record for Gennady Padalka who currently lives with Scott in the ISS, accumulating to 878 days.
Besides Scott, there is also a Russian astronaut named Mikhail Kornienko joined NASA’S one-year space living plan. NASA will study the influence on human body for consecutive living in the space via observing these two astronauts’ living there.
When living for a while under micro gravity environment, it will cause some side effects on human body, such as degradation of bone tissue and vision problems.
NASA will avail of this opportunity to further study this issue. The astronauts may take a few months or even a year when they do future research on Mars. To make this one-year mission more perceptual intuition, Scott’s twin brother Mark Kelly monitors his living on the Earth.
