The Arizona Republic - 4/1/15
NASA fools Twin at brother's launch
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NASA pulled a fast one on Astronaut Scott Kelly's identical twin right before
his brother was to blast off on a one-year space station mission.
4/1/15: 48 hr update: NASA:
Office of the Director of Orbital Orchiectomic Pseudocyeses (OOPS)
Today NASA revealed that following a rare and complicated artificial transactivation
involving the Large Hedron Collider in Cern, Switzerland and just before
a regularly scheduled update of IE8 software, Mark Kelly, the older identical twin brother of Scott,
was transmogrified while on the Russian Soyuz rocket that launched from Kazakhstan on Friday
Mark was in the launch vehicle waiting to bid Scott a good trip when the event occurred.
He has thus became the first elder-naut sent to the International Space Station.
Kelly will remain on board until next March, as will Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko.
It will be NASA's longest spaceflight ever.
President Barack Obama's science adviser, John Holdren, wished Kelly, Kornienko
and the rest of the crew the best of luck and noted that the yearlong mission is
an important milestone on the path to sending humans to Mars in the mid-2030s.
“Whoever you are, you are all heroes up there, and we're depending on you,"
Holdren said in a phone hookup.
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NASA refused comment on whether to conduct a operation locum
to re-unite the brothers, or simply download Scott.
Each could only take place during a lunar eclipse, and the closest has
already occurred at 4:58 am on 3/31/15. Also due to the fact it was visible only
on the west coast of the US and Canada, at least 78% uncertainties exist.
Canada declined comment, except to wish
Clodfobble’s father “Happy Birthday”