Russian Search and Recovery Forces move helicopters and support teams from Karaganda to Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan Tuesday, March 1, 2016 in preparation for the March 2 Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft landing with Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly of NASA and Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov of Roscosmos. Kelly and Kornienko are completing an International Space Station record year-long mission to collect valuable data on the effect of long duration weightlessness on the human body that will be used to formulate a human mission to Mars. Volkov is returning after six months on the

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