A Tale Of Two Astronauts: Scott And Mark Kelly Begin New Phase Of NASA Twins Study
by The Daily Eye Team March 4 2016, 3:09 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 24 secsAfter nearly a year on the International Space Station, NASAastronaut Scott Kelly returned to Earth on Tuesday night, completing, along with Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko, the longest continuous stay in space.
Kelly, Kornienko and his fellow cosmonaut Sergey Volkov touched down in Kazakhstan at 10:26 a.m. Wednesday (8:26 p.m. Tuesday Pacific time). The Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft that ferried them back from the space station landed southeast of the remote town of Dzhezkazgan, NASA said.