Space station crew landed in Kazakhstan after 300 days in space

A Soyuz capsule carrying NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko, Sergey Volkov landed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, NASA television reported. 
•    The landing took place in a steppe near the Kazakh city of Zhezkazgan at 10:26 local time (0426 GMT).
•    NASA astronaut Scott Kelly is closing the door on a space mission that has spanned a U.S.-record of 340 days.
•    They had circled the world 5,440 times and experienced 10,880 orbital sunrises and sunsets.
•    The International Space Station (ISS) is a space station, or a habitable artificial satellite, in low Earth orbit. Its first component launched into orbit in 1998, 
•    The ISS is now the largest artificial body in orbit and can often be seen with the naked eye from Earth. 
•    The ISS consists of pressurized modules, external trusses, solar arrays, and other components. 
•    ISS components have been launched by Russian Proton and Soyuz rockets as well as American Space Shuttles.
•    The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is the agency of the United States Federal Government responsible for the civilian space program as well as aeronautics and aerospace research.
•    President Dwight D. Eisenhower established the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 1958.