NASA astronaut Scott Kelly returns home after a record year in space

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly has returned home on board Russian Soyuz spacecraft. He becomes first American to spend over a year in space (Source: NASA)
Astronaut Scott Kelly returned to Earth on Wednesday after an unprecedented year in space for NASA, landing in barren Kazakhstan with a Russian cosmonaut who shared his whole space station journey.
Their Soyuz capsule parachuted onto the central Asian steppes and ended a science-rich mission at the International Space Station that began last Marc