Update on NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly’s Return to Houston

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March 02, 2016  MEDIA ADVISORY M16-022 Update on NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly’s Return to Houston Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly of NASA rests in a chair outside of the Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft just minutes after he and cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan late Tuesday, March 1 EST. Kelly and Kornienko completed a record year-long International Space Station mission to collect valuable data on the effects of long duration weightlessness on the human body that will be used to formulate a human mission to Mars. Credits: NASA/Bill Ingalls NASA astronaut Scott Kelly now is expected to return to Houston at about 12:55 a.m. EST Thursday (11:55 p.m. CST Wednesday, March 2), based on the current transportation plan. NASA Television will broadcast Kelly’s arrival back on U.S. soil after an agency record-setting stay in space aboard the International Space Station. Coverage begins at 12:40 a.m. Second Lady of the United States Dr. Jill Biden, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology Dr. John P. Holdren, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, and Kelly’s identical twin brother and former NASA astronaut Mark Kelly will be in Houston to welcome Kelly home. The event will be pooled press only. For more information about the International Space Station, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/station  For NASA TV streaming video, schedule and downlink information, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv -end- NASA news releases and other information are available automatically by sending an e-mail message with the subject line subscribe to hqnews-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. To unsubscribe from the list, send an e-mail message with the subject line unsubscribe to hqnews-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.