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Scott Kelly was born, along with his identical twin brother Mark, on February 21, 1964, in Orange, New Jersey, to Patricia (McAvoy) and Richard Kelly. [16] Kelly's family lived in West Orange, where his parents worked as police officers. [17] Kelly and his brother graduated from West Orange Mountain High School (New Jersey) in 1982.
Twins Scott Kelly and Mark Kelly are taking part in an ongoing first-of-its-kind twin study with NASA.
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Astronaut Scott Kelly was selected as the identical twin of Mark Kelly. The mission included collecting scientific data important to future human exploration of the Solar System. Kelly and Korniyenko already had an indirect connection: Kelly was a backup crew for the station's Expedition 23/24, where Korniyenko served as a flight engineer. [13]
Mark Kelly [6] and identical twin brother, Scott Kelly, are sons of Richard and Patricia (née McAvoy) Kelly, two retired police officers. [7] [8] Kelly is of Irish descent. [9] He was born on February 21, 1964, in Orange, New Jersey, and raised in West Orange, New Jersey. Kelly graduated from Mountain High School in 1982.
He and his twin brother Scott Kelly were the face of the agency’s “twin study” which examined the effects of space travel on the human body in comparison to the passage of time on Earth, a ...
Endurance: A Year in Space, a Lifetime of Discovery is a 2017 memoir by American astronaut Scott Kelly and Margaret Lazarus Dean. The book details Kelly's life, as well as that of his twin brother Mark, as they became naval aviators and test pilots, and were both selected for NASA Astronaut Group 16.
In a recent conversation with Kelly’s identical twin brother, Scott, another retired Navy captain and astronaut, the Senator was described as a person skilled in crisis management and scientific ...