Here’s How Astronauts Get Home From The Space Station
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The hours and days after Scott Kelly detaches from the International Space Station will be super busy.
On Tuesday, astronaut Scott Kelly will leave the International Space Station after spending a full year in orbit.
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First, Kelly and Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov will strap themselves in to a Soyuz spacecraft docked to the station.
A Soyuz is a capsule that the Russian space agency uses to ferry people to and from the station. Things get pretty tight inside.
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At 4:40 p.m. ET, the hatch to the Soyuz will be closed and the crew will perform a series of leak checks to make sure everything is ready to go.
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