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In March 2015, Soyuz TMA-16M carried two Russians and one American to the station. After serving the usual 6-month tour, Gennadi Padalka returned home, but Mikhail Korniyenko and Scott Kelly remained in space for 340 days for a study designed to gather data relevant to a possible future mission to Mars. Kelly’s twin brother and fellow astronaut, Mark, stayed on the ground and participated in comparable medical and physiological experiments as a ‘control subject.’
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Soprano Sarah Brightman, who had been due to fly as a space tourist, declined the flight for family reasons, as did her backup, Japanese entrepreneur Satoshi Takamatsu.
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AAUSAT-5 was launched on October 5, 2015.
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O’Sullivan, J. (2020). Iriss. In: European Missions to the International Space Station. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30326-6_6
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