A Russian news report says a year-long spaceflight involving one Russian and one American will take place aboard ISS beginning in 2015. A NASA spokesperson said such a mission is a possibility, but no final decision has been made.
Such a mission would make sense, however. President Obama has called for a manned flight to an asteroid in 2025, and a human mission to Mars in the 2030s. Both of those would require long duration spaceflights, so stretching stays in space and testing the results in preparation for those long flights is necessary at some point.
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