It seems like pure science fiction. NASA astronaut Scott Kelly goes to space for nearly a year, comes back, and suddenly has turned into a mutant with different DNA from his twin. As Newsweek wrote, his DNA “changed in space”.
As is by now traditional, a studio has bought the rights to a book that hasn’t even come out yet. In this case, it’s Sony Pictures making a movie out of astronaut Scott Kelly’s Endurance: My Year in Space and Our Journey to Mars.
Sure, it sucks to lose bone and muscle mass in outer space, but on the flip side, astronauts gain height. After a year of weightless suspension in a tin can, astronaut Scott Kelly is now a full 5cm taller than his twin brother Mark and has unlimited gloating rights, NASA’s…