Published on January 31, 2018
Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 43 Commander Terry Virts and Flight Engineer Scott Kelly of NASA discussed the ongoing progress of their mission in a pair of in-flight interviews May 15 with the Weather Channel’s “Wake Up with Al Roker” program and TIME Magazine. Virts’ stay aboard the station has been extended several weeks in the wake of the loss of the Russian ISS Progress 59 cargo ship while Kelly is in the second month of a year-long mission on the complex along with Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko designed to gather valuable data on the effect of long duration exposure of the human body to weightlessness for the future planning of missions to Mars.
