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What it's like to live in space

Kelly Dickerson   

What it's like to live in space
Science1 min read

A $150-billion contraption floating 270 miles above Earth is one of the most impressive achievements of humankind.

It's called the International Space Station (ISS), and a rotating astronaut crew has occupied it since 2000. The work of those astronauts has yielded some incredible scientific insights.

Astronaut is not a profession where you get to go home at the end of the day though. One ticket from Earth to the ISS costs about $70 million, so normally each crew lives and works on the station for a six-month shift.

Right now NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko are in the middle of a year-long shift aboard the ISS. They'll be the first humans to spend a consecutive year living in space.

But what is it like to actually live on the ISS?

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