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SKY LAB Tucked away in 20 acres of forest, Star City is home to 1,000 scientists and their families; below, a control console pounds of thrust applied to your back the pouch-sealed stuf the U.S. sends. with them better than any other U.S. instantaneously. To a spectator, it looks “The hardest part is being locked up government agency,” Kelly says. “And like it lifts of slowly. Inside, there’s for months without fresh air, the color that’s because we’ve done something nothing slow about it.” green, a breeze or my kids,” Kelly says, so diicult together in this incredibly as he climbs to the capsule hatch. challenging environment.” KELLY AND KALERI are practicing docking “But you won’t miss your brother,” That’s putting it mildly. The ISS, procedures early one morning at the adds Kareli. which is so big it can be seen Gagarin complex, a series of cavernous, “No, I’m a lucky guy in from earth with the naked fl uorescent-lit rooms joined by a maze of that respect,” says Kelly. BOARDING PASS eye, is made up of 14 highly hallways. A Soyuz replica around two- Turns out Kelly’s twin Fly United from pressurized modules that fi t Washington-Dulles thirds the size of a Toyota Prius stands brother, Mark, is also an to Moscow and together like an intergalactic in a bright warehouse surrounded astronaut. In fact, he’s fall for Russia—a Erector Set. by a busy team of engineers and scheduled to command country that spans “These sections are fl ying