Tuesday, March 1, 2016

By the Numbers: Astronaut Scott Kelly's Year-in-Space Mission

By the Numbers: Astronaut Scott Kelly's Year-in-Space MissionKelly and Kornienko launched in March 2015 and are set to return to Earth Tuesday night (March 1), landing with cosmonaut Sergey Volkov on the snow-covered steppe of Kazakhstan aboard Russia's Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft. During those 5,440 orbits, Kelly and Kornienko traveled some 143,846,525 miles (231,498,542 kilometers) at 17,500 mph (28,160 km/h).


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