Homecoming for 2 spacemen after year aloft: 'We did it!'

Mar 12, 2016, 02:50

Kelly, who spent the time about 249 miles above the planet aboard the International Space Station, and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko landed Tuesday at 11:26 p.m. Scott's identical twin brother Mark, himself a former astronaut, is spending the year on Earth, enabling researchers to focus on a near-identical comparison of the brothers' genomics profiles - something never captured before in human space research. A search and rescue team has located the capsule.

Their ground-breaking long visit to the International Space Station, the longest for any American, was created to test human reactions to being in space for prolonged periods in preparation for a manned mission to Mars in coming years.

In their almost year-long stay in space, Kelly, 52, and Kornienko, 55, have been the subjects of dozens of medical experiments and science studies trying to learn more about how the human body adjusts to weightlessness and the high-radiation environment of space.

The trio are now undergoing routine medical tests.

If you're waiting to hear Scott Kelly's perspective on the experience, you'll have to be patient a little while longer.

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Kelly will next travel back to Houston, Texas.

Kelly also went on three space walks during the mission to carry out maintenance tasks.

After 340 days in space, Scott Kelly is back on Earth.

Because of the small dimensions of Russia's Soyuz spacecraft, the samples will be retrieved by a shuttle from Space X, an American aerospace manufacturer.

Kelly surpassed the previous record for time spent in space by a United States astronaut on October 16, 2015.

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NASA astronaut Scott Kelly is closing the door on a space mission that has spanned a U.S.-record 340 days. Kornienko's total stands at 516 days over two flights, moving up to 18th on the list of most experienced cosmonauts and astronauts.

Kelly was lifted from the capsule and placed in a seat to allow his body to readjust to the earth's gravity.

During the one-year mission, the ISS crew conducted nearly 400 investigations in order to advance NASA's mission.

Kelly photographed the first five sunrises of his waking day Tuesday, posting the pictures on Twitter, before quipping, "I gotta go!"

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