Twin brothers setto meet in space

When US astronaut Scott Kelly arrives at the International Space Station, he will have one unlikely consolation as he begins five months away from his family – his identical twin will drop by.

Mr Kelly was due to blast off today on a Russian Soyuz rocket. In a twist of fate he will be joined at the space station by his brother Mark, another Nasa astronaut, whose shuttle flight was postponed in July.

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