ZHEZKAZGAN, Kazakhstan, March 2 (UPI) -- NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko returned to Earth after spending nearly a year in space on the International Space Station.
The Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft capsule carrying Kelly, Kornienko and Russian crew member Sergey Volkov landed in Kazakhstan at 10:26 a.m. Wednesday, or 11:26 p.m. ET Tuesday. Kelly and Kornienko's 340-day stay in the ISS is about twice the length of a normal deployment and was part of a study to determine the effects of long-term spaceflight on the human body.