NASA Flight Engineer Scott Kelly says arriving at the International Space Station for a planned year-long stay is "like coming to my old home." Full Story: NASA astronaut Scott Kelly was all smiles Monday as he spoke to earth from the International Space Station which he described as "like coming my old home." Kelly is on a one-year mission, the first of its kind, with plans to conduct research that will help doctors, scientists and mission planners better understand the physical and psychological effects of long-duration spaceflight. "I truly believe this is one of the most amazing orbiting, most amazing facilities, scientific achievements, engineering achievements that we've accomplished," said Kelly. "Hopefully the current crews and previous crews and future crews, not just Misha and myself, will be furthering our goals to put humans on Mars some day." Kelly, 51 and cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko, 54, and Gennady Padalka, 56, arrived at the Space Station via a Russian Soyuz ro... ( More) | 
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