Mission and Science of Expedition 43 Previewed

In one of two briefings held by NASA Thursday, Jan. 15 at Johnson Space Center in Houston, to preview the upcoming yearlong stay aboard the International Space Station of the Expedition 43 crew, ISS officials discussed the science and mission priorities and objectives, which include hundreds of research experiments, numerous spacewalks and international and commercial cargo deliveries to the complex. NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Gennady Padalka of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) will launch to the space station aboard the Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft March 27. Padalka will return to Earth in September while Kelly and Kornienko remain onboard until March 2016.