A moment with Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko, who are about to spend a year in space

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Wow! They are sending Charles Bronson in to space with that bald guy from the Shield!

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I still remember when Soviet Union broke, my first reaction to the news was “Wait, what about the kosmonauts on MIR? How will they get home now?”

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What’s with the two wrist-watches per astro-dude?

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One’s a watch, the other is an emergency personal force field emitter.

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They all do that:

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Only 7 here - this group isn’t quite up to spec.

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Astronauts need keep track of time on a lot of stuff: experiments, Universal time, mission elapsed time, local/home time, alarms, etc. Sometimes you see them wearing three simultaneously.

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Check out the speed limit signs.

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