Russian cosmonaut, US astronaut get ready for longest ISS flight!

Their trip is a test for a manned Mars journey in the 2030s that is set to take about three years. Kelly noted that he hopes a manned trip to Mars “will happen in my lifetime.”

Kornienko added that he thinks it might happen earlier, stating that he is “optimistic” and sure that many nations would have to “join powers” to carry out the mission.

NASA's Scott Kelly and Roscosmos’ Mikhail Kornienko are to stay on the final frontier for a year in 2015.

"We rely on each other implicitly for our lives," 50-year-old Kelly said at a press conference in Paris to showcase the mission.

"Any political issues that exist between our countries is something we don't even discuss. We're great friends, we're colleagues, we're professionals. That's the way it has to be," he added.

It's very nice of the Russians to allow our astronaut to bum a ride on one of their rockets while our's are in the junkyard.

Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen, Japan's Sichi Noguchi, Denmark's Andreas Mogensen, Roscosmos cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko of Russia and Nasa astronaut Scott Kelly give a press conference on December 18, 2014 at the UNESCO in Paris.(AFP Photo / Patrick Kovarik)

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So how dafuck any politician idiot whether in US or EU might think to go ahead without Russian, and into the space!?!

this could be the ultimate cage match.

East vs West in space!

Loser leaves the capsule!

Hey, ya rotten no good scum sucking Russky bastids!

Yeah you, you low life creeps!

Can we please borrow some of your natural gas to heat our house?

We're freezing!

And can we send one of our spacemen up in one of your rockets?

Our's don't work anymore.

Okay, thanks!

As in, thanks for nothin, ya no good rotten bums!

Oh. Can we also borrow a cup of sugar while we're here begging?

Russian carrier rocket Soyuz-ST with O3b European communications satellites has successfully blasted off from the Guiana Space Center.

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at the same time fuck EU bastards don't stop with sanctions
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While the US and Russia are bickering and whinning, China sneaks up and get's to Mars first.

Moral of the story, ....STFU and get to work on that which is important.

Dmitry Rogozin, the Russian Deputy Prime Minister supervising defense-related policies, said Moscow may discontinue its segment of the ISS after 2020. He added that “the Russian segment [of the ISS] can exist independently from the American one, but the American segment cannot exist without the Russian.”

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Their trip is a test for a manned Mars journey in the 2030s that is set to take about three years. Kelly noted that he hopes a manned trip to Mars “will happen in my lifetime.”

and don't forget India as well
India on path to delivering humans to space, tests heaviest launch vehicle
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On September 24, India’s fledgling space program got a historic first: The country’s Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) probe achieved the grand finale of its 10-month mission when it entered the Red Planet’s gravitational field, thus making India just the fourth country to successfully send a space vehicle into Mars orbit.

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Too much Hollywood 4 U

Russia contemplates new national space station

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Livestream of the International Space Station one-year crew news conference will start at 16:00 CET - tune in at

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He will be the first American to have spent a year in space; Two Russian cosmonauts did it in December, 1988, (366 days), and Valeri Polyakov spent 439 days in space from January, 1994, to March, 1995, 20 years ago.

Valeri Polyakov is not impressed.

Valeri Vladimirovich Polyakov (Russian:, born Valeri Ivanovich Korshunov on April 27, 1942) is a Russian former cosmonaut. He is the holder of the record for the longest single spaceflight in human history, staying aboard the Mir space station for more than 14 months (437 days 18 hours) during one trip.[1] His combined space experience is more than 22 months.

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