Back on Earth: Astronaut Scott Kelly Faces Gravity After 1-Year Mission

Shortly after landing, both spaceflyers — along with cosmonaut Sergey Volkov, who also came home, but after the typical, 5.5-month station mission — were taken out of their Soyuz spacecraft, placed in chairs near the landing site and taken into a medical tent for an hour-long "field test" to assess their general condition. That test consists of a variety of experiments, Kelly said late last month in his final conversation from the space station with reporters. The spaceflyers then we