Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Back on Earth: Astronaut Scott Kelly Faces Gravity After 1-Year Mission

Back on Earth: Astronaut Scott Kelly Faces Gravity After 1-Year MissionShortly after landing, both spaceflyers — along with cosmonaut Sergey Volkov, who also came home, but after the typical, 5.5-month station mission — were taken out of their Soyuz spacecraft, placed in chairs near the landing site and taken into a medical tent for an hour-long "field test" to assess their general condition. That test consists of a variety of experiments, Kelly said late last month in his final conversation from the space station with reporters. The spaceflyers then went their separate ways, with Kornienko and Volkov headed to Moscow and Kelly to Houston, where NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC) is located.


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