Watch Astronauts Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko Plummet to Earth

Mar 02, 2016, 11:13

Kelly has proven a popular figure for NASA and has leveraged social media to build goodwill for the space agency's missions.

During that time he shattered the record for the longest consecutive days spent in space by any NASA astronaut. The previous record was 215 days, held by NASA astronaut Michael López-Alegría.

Follow astronaut Scott Kelly's record-breaking 12-month mission on the International Space Station, from launch to landing, as NASA charts the effects of long-duration spaceflight on part one of A Year In Space on Wednesday, March 2 at 7 p.m. on KLRU.

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How human bodies react to lengthy periods in space is a crucial subject for NASA, which predicts a round-trip manned mission to Mars would require two to three years inside a spacecraft.

Kelly isn't bringing back any souvenirs - this is his fourth mission in space, after all - but he's looking forward to returning some personal items when he lands.

Even an old astronaut like me can still marvel at the power of President Kennedy's declaration more than a half-century ago that space was the "new ocean"- and one we must "sail on".

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"I'll probably never see it again", Kelly told Gupta. "I've been up here for a really long time and sometimes, when I think about it, I feel like I've lived my whole life up here". While Scott was in space, Mark participated in parallel twin studies on Earth in order to provide scientists with more bases for comparisons.

Their Soyuz capsule parachuted onto the central Asian steppes and ended a science-rich mission at the International Space Station that began last March and was deemed a steppingstone to Mars. Astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft will then explore the asteroid in the 2020s and return to Earth with samples. He'll have plenty of pictures, at least, for the scrapbook - he posted 1,000 dramatic, color-drenched pictures of Earth on his Twitter and Instagram accounts.

Right now, Kelly is getting ready to board a Russian Soyuz capsule with his one-year-mission partner, Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko. Between 1987 and 1995, four cosmonauts spent a year or more in space.

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As he relinquished command of the space station Monday, Kelly noted that he and Kornienko "have been up here for a really, really long time" and have been jokingly telling one another, "We did it!" and "We made it!" Kelly heads to Houston with two flight surgeons and several other NASA reps, arriving late Wednesday night. NASA will spend years analyzing the tests he conducted on board.