How to watch NASA astronaut Scott Kelly fly back to Earth after a year in space
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly is coming home.
After 340 days living and working aboard the International Space Station, Kelly will start his journey back to Earth on Tuesday when he and Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov undock their Russian Soyuz spacecraft from the Space Station at about 8:05 p.m. ET.
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The undocking will signal the end of Kelly and Kornienko's yearlong mission onboard the orbiting outpost, marking the conclusion of the first one-year mission on the station.
You can watch the undocking and landing -- expected at 11:25 p.m. ET in Kazakhstan -- on March 1 directly through NASA TV or in the window below.
Kelly passed off command of the Space Station to NASA astronaut Tim Kopra, who will remain on the station with British astronaut Tim Peake and cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko to carry out the rest of their six-month mission.
"Teamwork makes the dream work in spaceflight, and spaceflight is the biggest team sport there is," Kelly said as he relinquished command.
Kelly and Korienko's mission was designed to help scientists on Earth gather more data about how long-duration spaceflight changes the human body. This kind of information can be used to mitigate any ill effects that astronauts may experience during a more than year long mission to Mars.
Kornienko and Kelly launched on their yearlong mission on March 27, 2015.
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Miriam Kramer worked as a staff writer for Space.com for about 2.5 years before joining Mashable to cover all things outer space. She took a ride in weightlessness on a zero-gravity flight and watched rockets launch to space from places around the United States. Miriam received her Master's degree in science, health and environmental reporting from New York University in 2012, and she originally hails from Knoxville, Tennessee. Follow Miriam on Twitter at @mirikramer.
