Astronaut Scott Kelly on How to Survive Isolation

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🗓️ 3 April 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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After spending a year in space, Scott Kelly is an expert on managing extreme isolation. The retired astronaut shares valuable advice with CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta on how to cope with social separation here on earth. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And lift off. The year in space starts now. Kelly, Corn Yanco and Padaca on their way
0:10.9	towards the International Space Station. Station, this is CNN. How do you hear me?
0:17.1	I hear you loud and clear welcome aboard the Space Station.
0:20.4	That was me talking to former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly back in 2016. At that time, he
0:28.2	was near the end of his 340 days on the International Space Station. The longest time in
0:34.5	American had been in space. Many of us have been in relative isolation for weeks now, and
0:41.6	there seems to be no clear end in sight. That can take its toll on all of us.
0:48.5	In this episode, I called Scott in his home in Houston. I wanted to ask him how he survived
0:54.8	nearly a year in space, stuck in one place, and away from his friends and family. Now, of course,
1:01.5	that was space. But in some way, a lot of us are living a similar reality right now. I'm Dr.
1:10.3	Sanjay Gupta, CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent. And this is coronavirus, fact versus fiction.
1:24.8	Then there, the two one-year crew member Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornyanko saying hello to
1:29.7	their crewmates and hello to their home for the next 12 months in space. Scott's year in space
1:34.9	was historic in more ways than one. Aside from breaking spaceflight records, he also participated in
1:41.7	something called the NASA Twin Study, where scientists track Scott and his identical twin brother Mark,
1:48.1	who's also a fellow astronaut, back on Earth. They wanted to see how a human body adapted to
1:54.5	extreme conditions in space. His twin brother was the perfect control for the study. It put us one
2:02.1	step closer to understanding if and how humans can reach farther planets like Mars. Dealing with
2:10.2	long-term isolation is one of the challenges that comes with space travel. Right now, many of us
2:16.0	are facing a similar challenge here on Earth. Talk about social distancing, Scott Kelly was over
2:22.9	200 miles from the planet Earth. So I decided to ask Scott for some advice since he's pretty uniquely
2:30.3	qualified to talk about isolating for an extended period of time. First of all, having a set schedule.
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