Scott Kelly will be able to eat all the fresh fruit he wants next week. (credit: NASA)
Scott Kelly is less than a week from coming home. When he climbs into a Soyuz spacecraft next Tuesday night, he will have completed a 340-day mission in space, the longest ever by any NASA astronaut.
But during a space-to-ground news conference with reporters on Wednesday, Kelly said he was feeling fine and still really enjoying his time in space. "I could go another year if I had to," Kelly said. "It would just depend on what I was doing and if it made sense. Although I do look forward to getting home next week."
Kelly will land Tuesday night at 11:25pm in Kazakhstan, likely about 140 kilometers southeast of Zhezkazgan. After medical tests there, he will return to Houston on a NASA airplane and undergo subsequent tests at crew quarters at the Johnson Space Center. And what will he do when released from there early Thursday morning? He's going to go home and jump in his pool, Kelly quipped.
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