What It's Like to Spend a Year in Space
The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 1, 2016
Astronaut Scott Kelly will return home on Tuesday night after spending an entire year in space.
He's the first American to spend an uninterrupted year in space - that's 230 miles of orbit - which was meant to simulate the length of time it would take to travel to Mars.
But all that space travel is tough on the body.
Mike Massimino, senior advisor for space programs at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, a former NASA astronaut, veteran of two spaceflights and a professor of mechanical engineering at Columbia University, discusses Kelly’s time in space and his return, including the time and process it will take to physically adjust to life on Earth.
