By Elizabeth Landau, CNN. Capt. Scott Kelly, a veteran astronaut, will set the record for the longest single space mission for an American, NASA announced Monday. Kelly and Roscosmos cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko will embark on a one-year mission to the International Space Station in 2015.
Do a personâs hair and fingernails continue to grow after death? Hair and fingernails may appear longer after death, but not because they are still growing. Instead, a persons fingernails and hair may appear longer because the skin around them has retracted, according to the Dermatology Clinic at UAMS. After death, dehydration causes the skin and other soft tissues to shrink.
Woman with the longest fingernails in the world breaks them all in a car crash. A woman with record-breaking 3ft fingernails is recovering in hospital after surviving a car crash in which all ten were all broken off. Grandmother Lee Redmond is said to be devastated at the loss of her nails, which had not been cut for 30 years.