After his picture perfect landing last night Scott Kelly seemed just fine

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The Soyuz spacecraft, under its main parachute, nears a cloud layer above the Kazahkstan steppe.

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Scott Kelly returned from space Tuesday night, landing on a cold, barren Asiatic steppe. And he couldn't have seemed more pleased with himself—or even with the weather, which featured a cool wind and temperatures in the 20s. "The air feels great out here," Kelly told NASA officials, who were helicoptered to the landing site to meet him.

Shortly after being extracted from the spacecraft, Kelly told his flight surgeon, Dr. Steve Gilmore, that the experience was "not much different than it was five years ago," when he spent six months on the International Space Station.

After a few minutes, Kelly and cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov were moved to a medical tent where they underwent several tests, such as measurements of their vision, balance, muscle tone, strength, nimbleness of their fingers, and so forth. They then took a helicopter flight back to Dzhezkazgan, in Kazakhstan.

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