For nearly a year, American astronaut Scott Kelly has been living and working at the International Space Station (ISS), with no running water. He told reporters Thursday that it is like camping in the woods for a year. He said the fact that everything floats up there, makes daily life “more difficult.” It is “somewhat of a harsh environment” he said. “You don’t feel perfectly normal.” He and his Russian partner, Mikhail Kornienko, are scheduled to return to Earth March 1. They will travel in a Russian spacecraft and land in Kazakhstan. Kelly said that he feels “pretty good” physically, and that he could go another 100 days, or longer, “if I had to.” But the first thing he said he will do after NASA tests him, is jump in his pool in Houston, Texas. He said the hardest part of the journey has been being isolated physically from people on the ground who are important to him. He says it has been a privilege to be on the ISS.
Title: Astronaut Scott Kelly Talks about His Year in Space
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data-end-time='26563'>He said the fact that everything floats up there, makes daily life “more difficult.”</span> <span data-start-time='26563' data-end-time='30625'>It is “somewhat of a harsh environment” he said. </span> <span data-start-time='30625' data-end-time='33479'>“You don’t feel perfectly normal.” </span> <span data-start-time='33479' data-end-time='41417'>He and his Russian partner, Mikhail Kornienko, are scheduled to return to Earth March 1. </span> <span data-start-time='41417' data-end-time='47646'>They will travel in a Russian spacecraft and land in Kazakhstan.</span> <span data-start-time='47646' data-end-time='59521'>Kelly said that he feels “pretty good” physically, and that he could go another 100 days, or longer, “if I had to.”</span> <span data-start-time='59521' data-end-time='69542'>But the first thing he said he will do after NASA tests him, is jump in his pool in Houston, Texas.</span> <span data-start-time='69542' data-end-time='80833'>He said the hardest part of the journey has been being isolated physically from people on the ground who are important to him.</span> <span data-start-time='80833' data-end-time='86896'>He says it has been a privilege to be on the ISS.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/850/astro_image.jpg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' data-question-id=5386 data-hint-location='69542' style='display:none;'><div 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