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nasa astronaut scott kelly at the

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baikonur cosmodrome scott

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you're back at the launch site and now

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just six months away from 12 months away

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from the planet

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is the reality of the magnitude of the

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mission

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starting to strike home starting to

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really sink in yeah i think i think so

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um

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you being here in uh in baikonur it's

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the for the first step to

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to get into space um

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and my training has not been all that

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busy

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since i started

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about a year and a half two years ago

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it's been pretty nice pace but i think

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now is when it really starts to pick up

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with the final exams we had as a backup

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crew and then coming here and then going

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back to houston i uh

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i anticipate

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you know having

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a lot more events scheduled and then a

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lot more travel leading up to coming

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back to russia and then back here in

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february and march

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so from this point on what is the most

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difficult part of the training is it the

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training itself or tending to personal

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issues

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to get your

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family support your loved ones in a

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position where you know you're not going

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to see them for a year

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you know the training is not

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much different than than what i did last

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time

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there's certainly more payload training

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because i'll be on the space station

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the soyuz training's a little bit

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different than in that we do it with uh

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gennady padalka for asset and then

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sergey volkov will be coming home with

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a year later

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um

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but i think mostly it'll be more

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more of a challenge in that i am getting

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ready to be gone for about it'll be

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really about 14 months

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which is pretty long time for me

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you know leaving from home and leaving a

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19 year old at home in my house

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so that's going to be a little bit more

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challenging this time

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do you look at this as a marathon scott

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and if so how do you and mikhail

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kornienko control the pacing of such a

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long mission

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you know i've talked to some guys that

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have uh been on the space station

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recently and they they recognize that

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this will be a challenge when i ask them

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hey could you stay another nine months

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could you how would you feel about

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staying another six months depending on

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where they are in the flight and they

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they definitely recognize a challenge of

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it but i think going into it um

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you know with the mindset right from the

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beginning

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that i'm going to be there for a whole

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year is going to make it

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you know might make it easier than

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certainly if you were on the space

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station had been there for six months

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and you were told you have to stay

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another six for some reason that would

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certainly be a lot harder um

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so i think it is in some ways a mental

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thing you know preparing yourself for

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you know the long haul

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and as far as controlling the pace we've

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discussed that um

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i think i'm going to have it have to

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have a little bit different

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pace or perspective on the whole thing

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this time than i did last time you know

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they say the the long duration flight is

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like a marathon and a shuttle flight's

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like a sprint what i say especially for

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my last flight is like

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was that the last flight actually kind

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of felt like a long shuttle flight

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except you had a little bit more time on

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the weekend so it was like a long sprint

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and finally scott the this is the first

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time humans will have spent a year in

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space

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in almost two decades what do you think

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is ultimately going to be the

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significance that will take away from

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this mission

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well someday we're going to go to mars

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and we have the facilities on board the

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space station to really study

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the

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effects of space on

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longer duration space flights i mean six

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months long time but you know going to

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mars is going to take a lot longer than

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that so

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you know having the capability that the

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international space station provides to

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study the the human element of this

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is uh

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is gonna be uh you know i think

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significantly better than what we've uh

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we've uh

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in our previous experience that the

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you know the russians and the soviets

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experience on the mir space station just

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because of how technology has progressed

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and their