CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Scott Kelly, NASA’s yearlong spaceman, took a long-anticipated plunge Thursday, jumping into his backyard pool, astronaut outfit and all.
“Oh, man, that feels good,” Kelly said as he floated to the surface.
After nearly a year of space sponge baths, Kelly didn’t even take time to change out of his blue flight suit. He walked right up to the edge of the pool, tilted sideways and fell in. It was still dark outside early Thursday morning in Houston — he’d been yearning for this moment throughout his U.S- record setting mission.
A video of his plunge was posted to his Twitter account Thursday, a day after his return from the International Space Station. “There’s no place like home,” he tweeted.
Kelly — looking and acting remarkably hearty after 340 days in space — was reunited with his family in the morning in Houston after a flight from Kazakhstan, where his mission ended.
