Astronaut Scott Kelly on what it's like to return to Earth after a year in space

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Scott Kelly missed a few things while he was circling the planet.

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I just kept thinking of Gibson and Sterling’s short story Red Star, Winter Orbit and Heinlein’s The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, in which characters have to stay where they are (space station and the moon, respectively) because of the long term changes to their bodies caused by those environments.

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It’s like, heavy, man.

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“Man, I was like, so high!”

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Well done.

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For you, only the best will do - it is my honor and my pleasure! :grin:

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He looks quite a lot like John Locke, doesn’t he?

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I’m disappointed that belts are apparently still required in zero g.

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