After A Year In Space, Scott Kelly’s Body Is Going Through Something Gruesome
Changing Our Future
Kelly explained that both of them knew why they agreed to the mission as it was vitally important if humans will ever become an interplanetary species. But what he learned there taught him more than he ever anticipated, “Scientists will study the data on Misha and my 53-year-old self for the rest of our lives and beyond. Our space agencies won’t be able to push out farther into space, to a destination like Mars, until we can learn more about how to strengthen the weakest links in the chain that make space flight possible: the human body and mind.”
