"I'm back in Star City! Looking forward to seeing my crew mates with whom I spent a #YearInSpace," Kelly wrote on his Instagram.
He also received a warm reception from his Instagram followers.
"How does it feel being visible part of history??😎👍👏" —meerophotoelements
"Nice) 12 of April we celebrate the date of space exploration" —diankagrig
"Thank you so much for all your dedication and hard work. You are truly contributions to the future of our species and planet. And of course, you demonstrate internstional cooperation and the benefits of peace and unity amongst all man kind. THANK YOU! MAXIMIM RESPECT!" —loversrocknyc
"On the shadow of Yuri Gagarin😉" —vasiliev.maxim
"Have you ever seen any of the Aliens movies? If I went to space, I'd be afraid that I'd have Xenomorphs on my mind the whole time" —masterwouldnotapprove
Part of the mission's goal was to track the impact of being in space on the human body. Scott Kelly has an identical twin, Mark, who was studied together with Scott to track the impact.
Star City is a training training center for cosmonauts in Russia, where Kelly went through training and monitoring together with Russian cosmonauts before the mission.
