Scott Kelly: The Front Man for Mission Mars

Kelly spent almost a year aboard the International Space Station, a record for a US astronaut.

Kelly is scheduled to land in Kazakhstan on Tuesday after serving aboard the International Space Station for 340 days, the longest single duration spent by any American astronaut in space.

Tuesday morning, Kelly tweeted photos of his final sunrise from the International Space Station.

“They train you to keep your hands and arms inside of your body enclosure to make sure you don’t break anything”, Wheelock said.

“Physically, I feel pretty good”, Mr Kelly told reporters via video link just days ago.

“Follow me as I rediscover Earth!”

After Kelly touches down, he and his identical twin brother Mark are going to be able to provide NASA with a ton of information that will help shape the future of human space exploration, including missions to far-flung destinations like Mars.

NASA Television will provide live coverage as Scott and his crew members return to Earth and depart the ISS.

Kelly travelled 143,846,525 nukes during his year-long mission.

According to a CNN report, the 52-year-old, who recently celebrated his birthday in space, was excited about his return though he said that he will miss the small, suspended nook that’s become his home.

Below he explains how extended time in space can result in bone loss, vision loss, and unsafe radiation exposure.

Today, the space station.

After more extensive medical checks, the Russians will fly back to Star City near Moscow for debriefing and rehabilitation, while Kelly will continue his journey to his homeland.

Kelly, a New Jersey native, made a successful landing on the steppes of Kazakhstan at 11:26 p.m EST along with the two Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov, NASA has confirmed.

NASA needs to know a lot more about these changes to the body before it can send people to Mars or on any other long spaceflights. They circled the world 5,440 times on a mission that began last March. He’ll have plenty of pictures, at least, for the scrapbook – he posted 1,000 dramatic, color-drenched pictures of Earth on his Twitter and Instagram accounts. This is a USA record.