Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Welcome Back, Scott Kelly & Co.!

The Soyuz capsule carrying NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov is about to touch down near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on March 2, 2016 (Kazakh time).
NASA / Bill Ingalls

One-Year Crew Returns to Earth (Press Release)

The Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft is seen as it lands with Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly of NASA and Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov of Roscosmos near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Wednesday, March 2, 2016 (Kazakh 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.

Source: NASA.Gov

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