Published on March 18, 2017
Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly of NASA and Flight Engineer Mikhail Kornienko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) discussed the progress of their year-long mission on the orbital outpost and the research being conducted during a pair of in-flight interviews Dec. 16 with CBS News’ “Face the Nation” program and CNN International. Kelly and Kornienko are nearing the end of the ninth month of a year in space, collecting valuable biomedical data about the effect of weightlessness on the human body that will be used to formulate future human missions to deep space.
