NASA Administrator, President’s Science Advisor to Speak with Astronaut on Yearlong Space Station Mission

NASA News Releases <hqnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Mon, 30 Mar 2015 15:11:48 +0000 (UTC)

    March 30, 2015

    NASA Administrator, President’s Science Advisor to Speak with Astronaut on Yearlong Space Station Mission  

  The Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft is seen as it launches to the International Space Station with Expedition 43's NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Gennady Padalka of the Russian Federal Space Agency onboard Friday, March 27 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls  

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will be joined by John Holdren, science advisor to President Obama and director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and former astronaut Mark Kelly for the first public conversation with astronaut Scott Kelly from the International Space Station on Monday, March 30.

The event will air live on NASA Television at 2:45 p.m. EDT.

Kelly launched Friday on the first-ever yearlong mission to the International Space Station. His mission will help scientists better understand how the human body reacts and adapts to the harsh environment of space, and is critical to advancing NASA’s plans to send humans on a journey to Mars.

Mark Kelly, who flew four space shuttle missions and commanded the final flight of space shuttle Endeavour, will participate in biomedical studies on the ground while his twin is on board the orbiting laboratory.

More information about the International Space Station and its crews is available at:

http://www.nasa.gov/station

Follow Scott Kelly on Twitter and Instagram at:

http://www.twitter.com/StationCDRKelly

and

https://instagram.com/stationcdrkelly/

For Scott Kelly's full biography, visit:

http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/kellysj.html

For Mark Kelly’s full NASA biography, visit:

http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/kellyme.html

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Lauren B. Worley

Headquarters, Washington

202-358-1288
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Nicole Cloutier-Lemasters

Johnson Space Center, Houston

281-483-5111
nicole.cloutier-1@xxxxxxxx

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