--- title: Astronaut Scott Kelly Lifts Off for Year-Long Space Mission description: Kelly takes off along with Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Gennady Pedalka canonical: https://time.com/3755910/international-space-station-launch/ author: Jeffrey Kluger article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-27T15:43:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:59:36.097Z article:section: Science og:title: Watch Scott Kelly Take Off for the International Space Station og:description: The astronaut embarked on a year-long mission og:url: https://time.com/3755910/international-space-station-launch/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0ee92822aefe896f/6987859ee53aba414d4d84cf/scott-kelly-rocket-launch-01.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: From left: US astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Mikhail Kornienko walk after their space suits were tested at the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome late on March 27, 2015 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Scott Kelly Take Off for the International Space Station twitter:description: The astronaut embarked on a year-long mission twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0ee92822aefe896f/6987859ee53aba414d4d84cf/scott-kelly-rocket-launch-01.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Astronaut Scott Kelly Takes Off for International Space Station > Sponsored content. 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Time follows Kelly and his twin brother, Mark, as they work the test the boundaries of long-term space travel._  by [Jeffrey Kluger](https://time.com/author/jeffrey-kluger/)  ## Jeffrey Kluger Editor at Large Mar 27, 2015 3:43 PM UTC  From left: US astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Mikhail Kornienko walk after their space suits were tested at the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome late on March 27, 2015 From left: US astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Mikhail Kornienko walk after their space suits were tested at the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome late on March 27, 2015 Kirill Kudryavtsev—AFP/Getty Images  by [Jeffrey Kluger](https://time.com/author/jeffrey-kluger/)  ## Jeffrey Kluger Editor at Large Mar 27, 2015 3:43 PM UTC It took Scott Kelly, Mikhail Kornienko and Gannady Padalka less than nine minutes to drive to work on Saturday. That’s the easy part. The hard part is that Padalka won’t punch out for six months; for Kornienko and Kelly, [it will be a year.](http://time.com/space-nasa-scott-kelly-mission/) **MORE**: [_Watch the Trailer for TIME’s Unprecedented New Series: A Year In Space_](http://time.com/space-nasa-scott-kelly-mission/) Their office, of course, is the International Space Station (ISS). And their drive began at 3:42 p.m. ET Friday, or 1:42 a.m. Saturday in Kazakhstan, where their Soyuz rocket lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, en route to space. The 510-second sprint to low-Earth orbit will be followed by a six-hour chase, in which the Soyuz will slowly gain ground on the station, finally docking at about the same time people in Kazakhstan will be arriving at their decidedly more prosaic places of business. TIME will be covering Kelly’s mission in the new series, [A Year In Space](http://time.com/space-nasa-scott-kelly-mission/). 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