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.
People have reported a growth in hair and nails after death, but it has been disproven. It may appear to do so as the body dehydrates and the skin, including gums, shrinks as it dries up. Pied_Pfeffer (24050) âGreat Answerâ (2) Flag asâ¦ Â¶. Well.. Iâm not a doctor, but I work in hospice which includes postmortem care.