Scott Kelly’s Year in space will be completed soon, in just several days from now. March 1st 2016 marks the day when astronaut and engineer and retired U.S. Navy Captain Scott Kelly will return to the surface of the Earth, after having spent 340 days on the International Space Station in one go. While Scott Kelly is not the first or the only astronaut to spend such a long time in outer space, but currently holds the record for the most overall time spent – 520 days.
Scott Kelly made an impression on the hearts of many back on Earth, not to mention the fact that he is centric to an experiment that involves his identical twin brother, which hopes to determine the physical and psychological changes that astronauts undergo while in outer space.
To the fans and people back on Earth, he has been an inspiration to say the least and communicated more than anyone would have ever expected from him. By using various social media platforms such as Twitter or Tumblr, Scott Kelly kept in touch with the thousands of people following his year-long story spent on the International Space Station. Whether it was the breathtaking photos he would take of amazing looking sunrises as they are seen from space, the aurora borealis or the night-lit cities of our planet, Kelly continued to post at least a photo a day from the ISS, more than 200 miles above the planet’s surface.
On Tumblr, he took nearly an entire day to answer question coming from numerous people following him about what life in space is really like. Between joking about how he’ll be taller than his brother when he comes back and realizing how he has grown fond of the space station, a fact that makes him feel like he will miss the ISS, Scott Kelly says he will welcome the return to Earth.
His press atop the International Space Station has meant a lot more than it would seem, the experiment that him and his brother are part of only being one of many. All of the studies and experiments run on board of the ISS are preliminary steps that mankind needs to take in preparation of a manned expedition to Mars, the Red Planet. On top of studying how the human body fares when exposed to life in outer space for a prolonged amount of time, the astronauts on the ISS also studied methods of crop growing while in space, for example.
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