What Happened to Astronaut Scott Kelly’s DNA During His Year in Space

I was a dorky kid,” Christopher Mason admits. “I went to Space Camp. I’d always been thinking about maybe being an astronaut.”

But not long after Space Camp, Mason discovered something even more seductive: DNA. He decided he wanted to be a geneticist instead.

Today, Mason is an associate professor at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York. Yet that dorky kid at Space Camp still lurks within.

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