Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko back to Earth after spending one year in the International Space Station

Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko have returned back to Earth after spending one year in the International Space Station - this is seen as a stepping stone to NASAs Mission Mars in the 2030s. Astronaut Scott Kelly and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko landed in barren Kazakhstan with a Russian cosmonaut who shared his whole space station journey.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 2 March 2016.

Their Soyuz capsule was piloted by a much fresher and decade younger cosmonaut Sergey Volkov, who had been in the space station for the normal six months. He piloted the Soyuz capsule home for Kelly, 52, and Kornienko, 55 - the capsule parachuted onto the central Asian steppes to bring to an end a science-rich mission at the International Space Station. That mission had begun last March and was perceived as a steppingstone to Mars.
Incidentally, in the course of their stay in the ISS the pair traveled 144 million miles through space, circled the world 5,440 times and experienced 10,880 orbital sunrises and sunsets during the longest single spaceflight by an American.


Image courtesy wikimediacommons.org

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