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Three Spacemen Return to Planet Earth (PHOTOS)

Astronaut Scott Kelly and cosmonauts Sergei Volkov and Mikhail Korniyenko landed safely in Kazakhstan after Kelly and Korniyenko spent a year on the Space Station and Volkov six months.

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Ground personnel help U.S. astronaut Scott Kelly disembark from a Soyuz capsule shortly after landing near the town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, on March 2.

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A Soyuz capsule carrying International Space Station (ISS) crew members U.S. astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonauts Sergei Volkov and Mikhail Korniyenko descends beneath a parachute near the town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, on March 2.

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Members of a search and rescue team work at the landing site of the Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft, which carried International Space Station (ISS) crew members U.S. astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonauts Sergei Volkov and Mikhail Korniyenko. The space capsule landed near the town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, on March 2.

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A member of a search and rescue team works at the landing site of the Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft, which carried International Space Station (ISS) crew members U.S. astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonauts Sergei Volkov and Mikhail Korniyenko. They landed near the town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, on March 2.

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U.S. astronaut Scott Kelly (R) and Russian cosmonauts Sergei Volkov (C) and Mikhail Korniyenko, surrounded by ground personnel, rest shortly after landing near the town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, on March 2.

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In this photo provided by NASA, International Space Station (ISS) crew member Scott Kelly, a U.S. astronaut, gestures after landing near the town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, on Wednesday, March 2. The Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft landed with Expedition 46 Commander Kelly of NASA and Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov of Roscosmos. Kelly and Kornienko are completing an International Space Station record year-long mission to collect valuable data on the effect of long duration weightlessness on the human body that will be used to help prepare for a human mission to Mars. Volkov is returning after six months on the station.

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