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Kazakhstan: Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko safely return to Earth
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02.03.2016
Expedition 46 crew members Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko landed on a steppe near the city of Zhezkazgan on Wednesday, after spending 340 days on board of the International Space Station (ISS) orbiting research facility.
Both men made the journey back to Earth in a Soyuz TMA-18M rocket alongside Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov, who spent 182 days on board the ISS. Once back on solid ground, crews deployed at the landing site helped them to leave the aircraft due to their lack of recent experience combatting gravity.
Roscosmos cosmonaut Kornienko and NASA astronaut Kelly spent almost a whole year in orbit, conducting a variety of tests and participating in a number of studies to provide new insight into how the human body adjusts to isolation, weightlessness, radiation and the stress of long-duration spaceflight. The tests were designed to assist NASA in their preparations for the eventual mission to Mars.
The pair travelled on board a Soyuz TMA-16M rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the ISS on March 27, 2015. Volkov joined the crew aboard the orbiting laboratory on September 4, 2015.
Both men made the journey back to Earth in a Soyuz TMA-18M rocket alongside Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov, who spent 182 days on board the ISS. Once back on solid ground, crews deployed at the landing site helped them to leave the aircraft due to their lack of recent experience combatting gravity.
Roscosmos cosmonaut Kornienko and NASA astronaut Kelly spent almost a whole year in orbit, conducting a variety of tests and participating in a number of studies to provide new insight into how the human body adjusts to isolation, weightlessness, radiation and the stress of long-duration spaceflight. The tests were designed to assist NASA in their preparations for the eventual mission to Mars.
The pair travelled on board a Soyuz TMA-16M rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the ISS on March 27, 2015. Volkov joined the crew aboard the orbiting laboratory on September 4, 2015.
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