On January 8 , 2011 , while Kelly was on the ISS , Kelly 's sister-in-law Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot in Tucson . '' Soyuz TMA-01M '' landed in Kazakhstan on March 16 , 2011 , and Kelly travelled to TIRR Memorial Hermann in Houston to see Giffords and Mark . Mark was the commander of STS-134 , the final flight of '' Endeavour '' , and launched on May 16 , 2011 , with Giffords in attendance . STS-134 had originally been scheduled to launch in February 2011 , which would have made the Kelly brothers the first twins to fly together in space
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2011 Tucson shooting
Scott Kelly (astronaut)