Photo credit: NASA-Bill Ingalls
Home Sweet Home: Back on Earth after a spending a year in space, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly rests in a chair outside of the spacecraft just minutes after he and Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov of Roscosmos landed in a remote area in Kazakhstan Tuesday at 11:25 p.m EST (10:26 a.m. March 2 Kazakhstan time).
Kelly and Kornienko completed an International Space Station record year-long mission to collect valuable data on the effect of long duration weightlessness on the human body that will be used to formulate a human mission to Mars. Volkov returned after spending six months on the station.
The 46 year old is pictured below, boarding a plane to Houston. After living for nearly a year aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly is two inches taller than his identical twin brother Mark.
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