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Cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko, RN3BF, and Astronaut Scott
Kelly have been chosen to
spend a full year aboard the International Space Station in 2015-16. A major
part of their mission, according to the
ARRL Letter, is to help increase understanding of how
the human body reacts and adapts to long-term space flight. This understanding
is important for planned manned missions in the future around the Moon, an
asteroid and, eventually, Mars. The two men are set to begin a two-year
training program in early 2013.