TIME A Year in Space: Inside Scott Kelly's Historic Mission - Is Travel to Mars Next?

by Jeffrey Kluger

Go inside one of the most historic space missions ever in A YEAR IN SPACE, the new special edition from TIME, written by Apollo 13 author Jeffrey Kluger. A YEAR IN SPACE chronicles astronaut Scott Kelly’s 340 days aboard the International Space Station (ISS) as part of NASA’s exploration of the challenges of extended spaceflight. The most pressing Could humans endure the two-and-a-half-year trip to Mars and back?While science has some understanding of how space and zero gravity affect the human body, Scott and his twin brother, Mark, a retired astronaut who remained on Earth, have served as the perfect test and control subjects to explore these effects.This special edition, the companion piece to the TIME and PBS documentary series A Year in Space, provides exclusive coverage coupled with abundant photographs, many taken by Scott Kelly himself.Highlights An inside look at how Kelly conducted experiments aboard the ISS and how he spent his downtime. Landscape Breathtaking photographs taken by Scott Kelly from 250 miles above the Earth’s surface. In interview with Samantha Cristoforetti, the first woman to spend 200 days in space, who spoke with TIME about her journey.

96 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 22, 2016

About the author

Jeffrey Kluger is Editor at Large at Time, where he has written more than 45 cover stories. Coauthor of Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13, which was the basis for the movie Apollo 13, he is also the author of 13 other books including his latest book Gemini: Stepping Stone to the Moon, the Untold Story.

Reviews

[Michael · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some of the factoids (how fast the ISS is moving, etc.) are repeated in nearly every article, which gets a little tiresome, but plenty of supercool stuff here about all the amazing work being done on ISS and the effects of zero G on humans. Scott Kelly's a real hero.

[Laura · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beautiful pictures

I followed Scott Kelly's tweets during his year in space. I would have liked the book to be longer soot could include more pictures and more details about the research done on the mission. The pictures of earth taken from space are stunning.

[Dr. Tathagat Varma · Rating 2 out of 5]

A light book on it...not the greatest and most authoritative text (which, I hope Scotty Kelly's Endurance will be), but a fairly good intro on the subject.