After 340 days in space Scott Kelly is ready to come home and jump in his pool. (credit: NASA)
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Tonight, after 340 days in space, seasoned astronaut Scott Kelly will fly home from orbit inside a Soyuz spacecraft.
By all accounts, Kelly has had a sterling turn of work aboard the station during the last 11-plus months, with his health holding steady and his meeting of virtually every milestone NASA has placed before him. Now he will come home for more extensive medical tests to help NASA determine the effects of long-duration spaceflight on the human body.
According to the flight schedule, Kelly and Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov will undock from the International Space Station tonight at about 8pm ET. After maneuvering away from the space station, they will be in position to begin their de-orbit burn about 2 hours and 30 minutes later.
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