One-Year Crew Launches to the ISS

ASA Television covered the launch of the Expedition 43 crew to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on March 27 U.S. time (March 28, Kazakh time). The spacecraft carried Soyuz Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer Mikhail Kornienko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and NASA Flight Engineer Scott Kelly to the orbital complex, where Kelly and Kornienko will spend a year conducting research on the long duration effects of space travel on the human body.