Astronaut Scott Kelly officially reaches midpoint of his #YearInSpace mission

At the end of the year, Kelly and fellow astronaut Mikhail Kornienko will have completed the longest-ever residency on the space station and one of the longest spaceflights a human has ever achieved. It’s mission? To successfully reach the global Space Station.

While foreign agencies continue to break records and venture into unknown parts of the final frontier, the USA should not remain in limbo, without even a properly funded shuttle program. While on mission, Kelly has shared his experience via Twitter.

One of the most ambitious studies undertaken so far is Fluid Shifts, which studies what happens when fluids shift into the upper body during weightlessness.

And, because everyone loves a poop joke, NASA specifies that astronauts are special and get to see their annual 180 pounds of feces burn up like shooting stars.

Huffington wrote, “According to the graphic, he’ll [Kelly] be making plenty of material for shooting stars”.

NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly, twin brother of Tucsonan Mark Kelly (a retired astronaut and husband of Gabby Giffords), has made it through the first six months of his year in space. It also states that 383 experiments will be done during the Year in Space, some by Nobel Laureates.

Kelly will have drunk 730 litres of recycled urine and sweat by the time he completes his year in space. By contrast we just see 684 sunrises during a year.

Kelly will need to exercise over 700 hours during his mission to stay fit and keep his bones, muscles and heart strong, which means he has to do about two hours of exercise per day.

Kelly will have run 648 miles on the specialized treadmill installed on the ISS.