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His one year mission complete, Scott Kelly will retire from NASA

Scott Kelly is all smiles after landing in Kazakhstan earlier this month. (credit: Bill Ingalls/NASA)

Just 10 days after landing safely back on Earth, astronaut Scott Kelly has announced he will retire from NASA at the beginning of April. Kelly has been with the space agency since 1996, and he has flown two shuttle missions in...

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Liveblog: Scott Kelly comes home from space tonight after nearly a year

After 340 days in space Scott Kelly is ready to come home and jump in his pool. (credit: NASA)

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2016-03-01T21:30:00-06:00

Tonight, after 340 days in space, seasoned astronaut Scott Kelly will fly home from orbit inside a Soyuz spacecraft.

By all accounts, Kelly has had a sterling turn of work aboard the station during the last 11-plus...

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Scott Kelly plays ping-pong in space and we’re all winners

Playing ping pong in space. (credit: NASA)

Scott Kelly and his Russian colleague, Mikhail Kornienko, hit the 300-day mark on board the International Space Station on Thursday, and they're now less than two months away from flying home in a Soyuz capsule.

To celebrate the milestone, Kelly sent down a nifty little video in which he uses...

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