After a white-knuckle descent onto the ice-speckled fields of Kazakhstan, U.S. astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Sergei Volkov have returned to Earth safely from the International Space Station—marking a successful end to Kelly and Kornienko’s Year in Space.
To celebrate, here’s a look at the moments just after the three emerged from their Soyuz capsule on March 2, 2016.
