Friday, March 4, 2016

Year In Space mission ends with Soyuz TMA-18M return

 
 
After 340 days in space, the Year In Space mission has ended, following the undocking from the ISS, deorbit, and subsiquent landing on the steppes of Kazakhstan. The Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft returned Year In Space participants Scott Kelly and Mikhail Korniyenko as well as Soyuz Commander Sergey Volkov, with landing marked at 23:26 EST 1 March (04:26 UTC – 2 March).

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Mikhail Kornienko, the Russian cosmonaut who spent a year in space together with Kelly, still hardly mentioned in mainstream media.


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