Twins In Space
The full nasa twins study was published thursday in science.
Twins in space. Twins bob and alice inhabit a space station in circular orbit around a massive body in space. The twin study proves that scientists can monitor an astronaut s genetics from space. When nasa astronaut scott kelly spent nearly a year on the international space station in a mission launching in 2015 his body was put under incredible stress.
The study could even have inaugurated the genomic era of space travel according to professor andrew feinberg which could lead the way to one long anticipated achievement. Get the latest updates on nasa missions watch nasa tv live and learn about our quest to reveal the unknown and benefit all humankind. Telomeres which are the protective caps on the.
Nasa discovered that the telomeres of the kelly brother who was in space got longer. The twin study propelled nasa into the genomics era of space travel. Nasa gov brings you the latest images videos and news from america s space agency.
Bob suits up and exits the station. It was a ground breaking study comparing what happened to astronaut scott kelly in space to his identical twin brother mark who remained on earth. For almost one year nasa astronaut scott kelly circled the planet on the international space station completing three spacewalks conducting experiments on plants and playing ping pong with a.
The research on scott kelly and his identical twin marks the dawn of human genomics in space identical twins scott and mark kelly both retired nasa astronauts participated in a study that. You ve probably seen the splashy headlines declaring that astronaut scott kelly and his brother are no longer identical twins as originally claimed in a since heavily corrected article by. There s no way that nasa will ever have enough twin astronauts to study to turn their findings into anything more than interesting observations.
While alice remains inside the station continuing to orbit with it as before bob uses a rocket propulsion system to cease orbiting and hover where he was.