US astronaut Scott Kelly broke the record for the longest single stay in space by a US astronaut after 340 days on the International Space Station.-AFP
Dzhezkazgan (Kazakhstan) (AFP) - US astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko returned to Earth Wednesday after spending almost a year in space in a ground-breaking experiment foreshadowing a potential manned mission to Mars.
"We have landing," Russian Mission Control confirmed after the trio touched down southeast of the settlement of Dzhezkazgan in central Kazakhstan at 0427 GMT.
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