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Best of friends #nationalpuppyday (at Mexico City, Mexico)

eco9madfashion

Follow my NEW tumblr account... ECO9MADFASHION 

Looking to post more personalized pictures through the environment and fashion. 

Please and Thank you! 

p.s.- You can also find me on instagram and twitter. Insta: mad_eco9 & @Angel_Miguel009

Really enjoyed my first NBA game 🏀Washington Wizards vs. Orlando Magic (at Verizon Center)

Wolf Gang 🐺

Every next level of your life will demand a different you. 🌓

🛩🇵🇷 Nothing more beautiful... #puertorico #vacation #airplane (at Palmas del Mar)

Sunset 🌞

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The after life☠️

The Night Shift 🏎 #golf #puertorico #vacation (at Urbanizacion Veredas, Gurabo, Puerto Rico)

Triple-double 🏀 #basketball #cavs

2017 Vibes 🍾 #newyear (at Urbanizacion Veredas, Gurabo, Puerto Rico)

Couple touches before the New Year 👹⚽️ #soccer #newyear (at Urbanizacion Veredas, Gurabo, Puerto Rico)

HAPPY 1st Birthday Camilo!! Glad I could share it with you, and many more to come😋

My mom is beautiful, love you. 😘 (at Kasalta, Ocean Park)

I don't always hold coconuts but when I do I'm in Puerto Rico 🏝 (at Palmas del Mar)

Enjoying the warmth of the family and Puerto Rico👹 #greatful (at Palmas del Mar)

"Imagine a world where..." @scott.boehret

Thanks Again for being my date🌹 (at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania)

Had a fantastic time listening, learning, and Attending the College of Business Ziegler Institute For Professional Development🐾 (at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania)

Squad Goals #BU wish we had a couple more games lined up this fall, but had a blast. ⚽️ great work guys. (at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania)

Midnight Shadows. 

Love this...

NASA has released more than 8,000 images of the Apollo missions. [flickr archive]

The One-Year Mission

First off, what is the One-Year Crew? Obviously, they’re doing something for a year, but what, and why?

Two crew members on the International Space Station have just met the halfway point of their year in space. NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian Cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko are living in space for 342 days and will help us better understand the effects of microgravity on the human body.

Why 342 days and not 365? Thought you might ask. Due to crew rotation schedules, which involve training timelines and dictate when launches and landings occur, the mission was confined to 342 days. Plenty of time to conduct great research though!

The studies performed throughout their stay will yield beneficial knowledge on the medical, psychological and biomedical challenges faced by astronauts during long-duration spaceflight.

The weightlessness of the space environment has various effects on the human body, including: Fluid shifts that cause changes in vision, rapid bone loss, disturbances to sensorimotor ability, weakened muscles and more.

The goal of the One-Year Mission is to understand and minimize these effects on humans while in space.

The Twins Study

A unique investigation that is being conducted during this year in space is the Twins Study. NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly’s twin brother Mark Kelly will spend the year on Earth while Scott is in space. Since their genetic makeup is as close to identical as we can get, this allows a unique research perspective. We can now compare all of the results from Scott Kelly in space to his brother Mark on Earth.

But why are we studying all of this? If we want to move forward with our journey to Mars and travel into deep space, astronauts will need to live in microgravity for long periods of time. In order to mitigate the effects of long duration spaceflight on the human body, we need to understand the causes. The One-Year mission hopes to find these answers.

Halfway Point

Today, September 15 marks the halfway point of their year in space, and they now enter the final stretch of their mission. 

Here are a few fun tidbits on human spaceflight to put things in perspective:

1) Scott Kelly has logged 180 days in space on his three previous flights, two of which were Space Shuttle missions. 

2) The American astronaut with the most cumulative time in space is Mkie Fincke, with 382 days in space on three flights. Kelly will surpass this record for most cumulative time in space by a U.S. astronaut on October 16.

3) Kelly will pass Mike Lopez-Alegria’s mark for most time on a single spaceflight (215 days) on October 29.

4) By the end of this one-year mission, Kelly will have traveled for 342 days, made 5,472 orbits and traveled 141.7 million miles in a single mission. 

Have you seen the amazing images that Astronaut Scott Kelly has shared during the first half of his year in space? Check out this collection, and also follow him on social media to see what he posts for the duration of his #YearInSpace: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. 

Make sure to follow us on Tumblr for your regular dose of space: http://nasa.tumblr.com

That time of year 🎄

Vibes

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